Roughly 31 percent of white millennials rated African Americans as less hardworking than white Americans, compared to 35 percent of white baby boomers. To do so, psychologists ask subjects to rapidly associate words with images of black faces and white faces. All the same, the persistence of biases among white millennials suggests the politics of race could remain bitterly divisive for decades to come. There is little evidence that white millennials, in particular, are much different than their parents when it comes to attitudes on race. Using data from another study, The Post found that 38 percent of white millennials displayed unconscious bias against black faces, compared to about 48 percent of white baby boomers.

Source: Washington Post July 29, 2016 05:21 UTC