(Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post)Torch-bearing white supremacists shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans. We often assume that it takes parents actively teaching their kids, for them to be racist. “The only way to change bias is to change culture,” Richeson said. But that’s usually on issues like climate change or gay marriage, usually not in their level of implicit bias,” Richeson said. In those studies, young white subjects responded just as strongly as older white ones with anxiety and uncertainty, expressing more negative explicit and implicit racial bias in tests.

Source: Washington Post August 14, 2017 18:53 UTC