The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes comes out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker explains that unconscious racial reactions can exist even without conscious animosity.
- In plain terms
- People can have unconscious racial reactions even if they are not racist.
- What can you take from it?
- Implicit biases can surface despite lack of conscious prejudice.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we change these reactions?
- Is it nature or nurture?
Another view
It assumes all such reactions stem from bred experiences.
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