How racial bias works — and how to disrupt it | Jennifer L. Eberhardt

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Our brains create categories to make sense of the world, recognize patterns and make quick decisions. But this ability to categorize also exacts a heavy toll in the form of unconscious bias. In this powerful talk, psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt explores how our biases unfairly target Black people at all levels of society — from schools and social media to policing and criminal justice — and discusses how creating points of friction can help us actively interrupt and address this troubling problem.

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62 Comments on How racial bias works — and how to disrupt it | Jennifer L. Eberhardt

  1. Sounds like something a racily bias person would say. But off course as all people who click dislike know already, this has nothing to do with race and everything to do with hypocritical ideology.

    • Photons are racist since they refuse to be reflected at the same rate depending on race! If we just get rid of all light then racism will end!

    • Oh it will stop in one way or another. I just hope it wont end in too many casualties but given equal and opposite reaction it might not be pretty.

    • FBI national crime statistics prove the reality of whats going on in this country. And yet those very same FACTS are always conveniently left out of any discussion like this as they would blow away the false narrative of what is powering their agenda.

    • She literally mentioned studies in the video and you can do a short google search by your own. I even commented with the links. Are you THAT lazy? Also people tend to use the FBI crime statistics without the details about the opinion of FBI professionals and other professionals talking about why it is possible and sadly confirming that this can come from a racial bias deeply embedded in the system. Not even the facts you cite agree with you. There are additional studies done on this too.

    • I don’t follow. She does give numbers measuring impact of changes taken by organizations (eg Nextdoor). Maybe you think an 11minute TED talk should have more numbers, but it just isn’t the case that there are none.

  2. Would you like me to like you because you’re black or because you’re awesome person that you and I love to hang around with.

    • @UsedToBeA Unicorn Tolerating means that you still didn’t change your mind to just not making a fuss about it. What you are trying to say is accepting someone for who they are and I’m totally okay with that, but if someone is an a*hole I won’t tolerate or accept regardless of the colour of their skin. And the fact / problem is that being an a*hole is not not against the law.

    • @Matthew Brown Lot of hate HOAXES being perpetrated these days kiddo. Prime example of the Juicy Smollet situation. Hmmmm , seem to remember him putting a noose around his neck to.

    • @muhahaha These people are fighting to be all seen as individuals, who you can like or dislike based on the content of their character, not the colour of their skin. This is not a race war for supremacy, this is the struggle of the people of the United States who believe in equality, as evidenced by the presence of many non-black demonstrators marching together with African Americans to defend their dignity as human beings.

    • @solarisengineering15 They already have all those things and have had them for decades. The problem is primarily that black culture was distorted by the welfare state to shun all personal responsibility.
      If racism was so prevalent than immigrants from Africa would do even worse than African Americans but the opposite is true, proving that racism is not what is holding African Americans back…

  3. First step would be stop only blaming people from one race for things that people from all races do. If you actually want to fight racism then stop doing racist things like treating people better or worse based on their race

    • @solarisengineering15 I agree with everything you said. To me white privilege is being judged as an individual whereas blacks are judged from a collective standpoint, so if a black person does something bad on the news some people feel all blacks are guilty.

    • @Blow Me I don’t see how your question is relevant to this discussion and is worded in a way that re-enforces stereotypes, but I looked this up. Multiple websites confirm Asian Americans do not hold a majority of corporate management positions at any level of U.S. corporate hierarchy. What you have said is untrue. You are clearly misinformed.

      Also you may want to change your username as “Blow Me” can be interpreted as a sexual act and you could be seen as being very immature.
      Cheers,
      Solar

  4. Oakland, CA facts
    1. One of the smallest police forces due to them all quitting.
    2. Rated as one of the most violent cities in U.S.
    Gee, wonder why crime rate didn’t go up…because it can’t go any higher. Just so you know most of the homicide victims are gang related. If this woman wants to save lives, go to the source, go help those gangs change their lives…good luck.

    • America is screwed up beyond belief. Policing and the criminal & justice department, including the prison system, are some of the most failed aspects of the entire US. Which is saying a lot.

  5. Thank you Jennifer as I just saw more within myself and outward-facing, in our world, than I knew before listening. What a revelation this journey is. My world is a united nation, yet I have never seen it this clearly. I recognize that awareness and the actions we all must take is a journey, but there is hope that the journey together is more in progress today than ever before. Blessings and again, thank you.

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