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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I refuse to watch beheading videos and I refuse to watch videos of a man executed in the US.  That doesn't mean I haven't read several descriptions, though.  It makes me want to cry or vomit or both.  At the same time I feel helpless as a nobody in the DC area to actually have any impact on what happens to these cops or on stopping this from happening again.
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There is something you can do.  This tweet:
Dr. Amitha Kalaichandran
@DrAmithaMD
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1. Start with yourself(I'm as imperfect as they come): 
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
2. Read about #bias at work: 
@twiffanyjana's "Erasing Institutional Bias"& 
@StanfordSPARQ/Jennifer Eberhardt's "Biased" 
3. Be the change
4. Know better,do better(then lead)

I took the implicit bias test which finds me with significant bias against blacks, even though I work with, am friends with blacks and live in a mostly AA part of DC.  Start with yourself![/quote]

Thank you.  I've taken the implicit bias test and I'm biased against black people and hispanic people.  I have regular .... debates .... with my father about "the Mexicans" (aka anybody who looks Latin) but being aware doesn't mean that my upbringing doesn't effect me in fundamental ways to this day.  It feels like I've made progress but it also feels like what the f&*$ does my progress matter when there are literally people being killed and the killers just walking away.

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