Week 3: Equity - Racism

Death rate of black men who had graduated from Yale was _ times higher than the average class members

3

Every _ minutes a black person dies prematurely in the US

7

White people who only graduate high school live longer than black people with a collage degree

.

3 scales to measure racism

1. captured major experiences of discrimination
- eg. unfairly fired or stopped by the police
2. everyday discrimination
- eg. poorer acts of service than others in restaurants
or stores
3. Unconscious racism

Implicit Bias (unconscious racism)

holding a subconscious stereotype in your mind and then meeting someone from that group - you will discriminate that person.
- considered normal (how the brain works)
- peanut butter + jelly = black men + violence
- can exist without us even realising it
- unconscious, automatic and relies on associations we form over time.

Americans must dissent

- dissent from indifference
- dissent from the hatred
- dissent from mistrust
America must do better, America has no choice but to do better