Are we all racists??? (At least to a degree...)

[billy_grim]

Last Monday on "Talk of the Nation" on NPR; the topic of Race and Culture was brought up in regards to the incident involving actor/comic Michael Richards (Kramer from Seinfeld). The guest on the topic was Michael Shermer who has written a number of books (Why do people believe in weird things, The science of good and evil; to name a few); anyway Shermer who I admire greatly said that people to some degree may have racial tenedencies. I consider myself to be pretty socially liberal, but I'm the first to admit race is still a major problem in this country; and unfortunately there are some People whom I know from one job I have who have some strong prejudices, which tells me this country still has a long way to go. Enclosed is a test, which was mentioned on the the show put out by various universities, the news article by Michael Shermer, and my results. Take a shot, and see if the test is pretty useful, or not. I would be interested in hearing what others had thought.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-shermer24nov24,0,4845406.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/Study?tid=-1