Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.
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We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.
People will sometimes put each other in boxes and have biases toward one another because of what they look like or where they come from or who they are. But ultimately, it's up to us to decide who we are.
All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.
I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.
The most biased people are the Democrats.
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.
Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds.
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