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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm one of the PPs above who posted about choosing a diverse neighborhood and school.

The experiences of Hobson and the other PP are awful and humiliating. As a white person, I can sympathize. But I also see it as my duty to take action, and one important way to do that is through the choices I make as a parent. Thinking about the white people who made those mistakes, [b]it is my fervent hope that because of where and how they've been raised, my white children will not bring that kind of unconscious bias into their adulthood.[/b] 
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PP, we all have unconscious biases.  We're human, and that's the way our brains are wired--for efficiency.  When we look at an individual with a certain set of characteristics, we rapidly attach labels to them based on the limited data we have.  We may associated certain traits with those labels, "good," "bad," "scary," "safe," etc., based on our experiences.

As an illustration, a colleague of mind took a test of unconscious bias called the racial Stroop while we were in grad school.  She was disappointed to learn that the test revealed that she seemed to prefer white faces to those of her own ethnic group.  No one is immune.

I'm not exactly sure what to do about this, but I think the one of the keys is just being aware of this human tendency, so that it doesn't unduly govern our behavior when we're interacting with others.  [/quote]

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