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• Thu, 14:29: RT @KamalaHarris: A government has three functions: public health, public safety, and public education. The GOP budget doesn’t prioritize a…
• Thu, 14:30: RT @KPCC: .@HansGutknecht spent over 1 year documenting LA's homeless people. He gave them a whiteboard and marker. They spoke https://t.co…
• Thu, 14:38: RT @owillis: ive worked on the left for 13 yrs now. somehow never worked alongside any racists or seen nazi salutes. the right wing media l…
• Thu, 14:38: RT @owillis: daily caller: regularly anti-semitic breitbart: racist vs blacks/latinos "black crime vertical" federalist: racist vs blacks "…
• Thu, 14:38: RT @SilverAdie: #HillaryThankYouNotes TY for being right about this moronic dotard. I pray you’ll be able to sue him 4 election fraud when…
• Thu, 14:40: RT @mashable: This robot has mad penmanship skills https://t.co/1XeCcq1spC
• Thu, 16:15: RT @kittyfeldeDC: California becomes 'sanctuary state' in rebuke of Trump immigration policy https://t.co/tXq5ZMZ4Yy
• Thu, 16:16: RT @chrislhayes: We put this stat on our show last night and people were incredulous. https://t.co/pmntgbDmc4
• Thu, 22:31: RT @KamalaHarris: All of us in public service have a duty to give voice to the vulnerable, give voice to the voiceless, and give dignity in…
• Thu, 22:31: RT @TomPerez: The GOP would rather restrict women’s access to health care than save insurance coverage for 9 million kids. https://t.co/ybt…

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Post From Tumblr How is taking an implicit bias test or being aware of my prejudices going to make m

I do not know that taking a test or being aware of your bias on its own will make your life any better, but it does give you the opportunity to do something. I see that awareness as pretty important, as it is difficult to change what you do not acknowledge. Let me use myself as an example. A few years ago I discovered that I am much more likely to interrupt a woman than I am to interrupt a man. This surprised me because a) I did want to be doing that, b) I was not trying to do that, and c) it did not reflect my values, beliefs and aspirations. It is not ideal to interrupt people, but it becomes a different kind of problem when it falls on some more than others. Being aware of it allowed me to do something about it…doing something about it meant that I was doing a better job of being the person that I claimed to be, by more consistently delivering on my values, beliefs, and aspirations through my behavior. It also changed the lived experience of the people that interact with me. Each of us have to pick our battles, but I think this is an issue that matters greatly. I believe we could take a little better care of each other, we could make decisions based more on fact and less on fiction, we could have organizations, communities, institutions, and policies with fewer consequences for real or perceived identity. I believe  we have some obligation to be intentional about how we treat others. If we do not wish to be judged unfairly, then we have to do our fair share of work as well.    
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Post From Tumblr Why do some people claim to not be discriminative, but then only have friends of on

Because we all want to be seen as non-judgmental (because we want to be seen as “good people”), and because most people do not understand bias. They think all bias is a choice, whereas most bias has nothing to do with choice…it is one of the by-products of the automatic decision-making done by the human brain. Part of addressing unintentional bias is paying less attention to our intentions and more attention to our actual behaviors, decisions, and outcomes.
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Post From Tumblr Implicit bias and community policing were being discussed during the Obama Administ

Excellent question, although I am a bit biased in that I provide implicit bias training to law enforcement agencies. You are correct in that the Obama administration encouraged IB training more-so than is currently the case. Fortunately, however, discussions of IB and IB training have become common among police chiefs and commissioners across the country to the point where IB training is trending toward becoming standard practice. What I’ve noticed is that with many, recent high-profile officer involved shootings, there’s mention of implicit bias as a potential factor. My team and I are currently focused on extending awareness training toward impacting measurable outcomes.
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Post From Tumblr I know gender and race are often the main communities discussed around this, but is

Surprising to many, Americans’ strongest negative bias is toward the elderly. There seems to be a very strong pro-youth bias in the U.S. such that most of us prefer the younger versions of ourselves and others. Here are a few questions for you: if you could be any age for the rest of your life, would you choose to be over 50 years old? What characteristics or thoughts come to mind when you think about getting old or the elderly? Many Americans, regardless of their race, gender, or socioeconomic status, hold more positive associations with younger people and many negative associations with elderly people.
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Post From Tumblr Why isn't implicit bias being talking about more in the news? I feel like it's the

I think raising our awareness and understanding of unconscious bias/implicit bias can help us address issues of inequity and inclusion. It is not the complete answer.  The impact of unconscious/implicit bias also needs to be acknowledged. Organizations, schools, workplaces, places of worship will want to address the impact of unconscious bias, and the ways in which it can be addressed.

There are systemic challenges and historic legacies that also impact many aspects of our lives (housing, education, the criminal justice system, etc.) We also will need to take at our individual identities, our own power, privilege, access, and how we have lived in the world.  
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