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CAT Tracks for May 7, 2015
BORN TO BE BIASED |
From the New York Times
This is not "news".
Calls to mind my old U.S. History unit on Separate But Equal...
...specifically the Clark Doll Test that helped convince the United States Supreme Court to issue it's unanimous decision in the 1954 Brown v Board Of Education case.
Over 60 years later, we're still trying to figure it out.
The conclusion to the Kristof piece...
“If you actually have friendships across race lines, you probably have fewer biases,” Banaji says. “These are learned, so they can be unlearned.”
...show too, that in this case, the answer is not blowin' in the wind.
Two of many examples:
And even more specifically, a song written to celebrate Brown v Board of Education:
Deep friendships, especially romantic relationships with someone of another race, also seem to mute bias — and that, too, has implications for bringing young people together to forge powerful friendships.
