Are we all unconscious racists

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Assignment:

"Are We All Unconscious Racists?" by Heather Mac Donald

1. This is a complex article with lots of statistics. After you sift through those, can you pick out the main argument? Try to express Mac Donald's purpose.

2. Mac Donald seems somewhat pre-occupied with the financial aspects of implicit bias training, noting multiple times that people are making money from conducting training sessions and writing books, etc. In your opinion, what are the ethical implications of making a living from conducting implicit bias training?

3. Google Heather Mac Donald and read some entries or articles, maybe watch some short videos. Then, do best to fill in parts of her cycle of socialization, going through the steps in the cycle: The Beginning, First Socialization, Institutional and Cultural Socialization, Enforcements, Results, Core, Direction for Change. How do you think her socialization impacted her interests and focus in this article. In other words, her life led her to write an article. How do you think it got there?

4. Mac Donald concludes: America has an appalling history of racism and brutal subjugation, and we should always be vigilant against any recurrence of that history. But the most influential sectors of our economy today practice preferences in favor of blacks. The main obstacles to racial equality at present lie not in implicit bias, but in culture and behavior." What is your reaction to that conclusion? Do you agree? Disagree? And what do you think Lipsitz would have to say in response to Mac Donald's conclusion?

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