Transcripts For KNTV Matter Of Fact With Soledad OBrien 2024

Dr. Eberhardt that association between blackness and crime makes its way into all of our minds. Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Today, a look at the pivotal role South Carolina plays in president ial politics. Earlier this year we visited the state and spoke to college of charleston professors h. Gibbs knotts and jordan ragusa, coauthors of first in the south why South Carolinas president ial primary matters. Who do you guys think will win it from the democratic side . Id be very surprised if biden doesnt win the South Carolina primary. And that could be enough to get the momentum to be able to get the nomination. Soledad both men accurately predicted joe biden would win the states primary and also his partys nomination. But neither gibbs or ragusa could have predicted just how close the race would be between Lindsey Graham and Jamie Harrison who are now virtually deadlocked with a little more than two weeks until election day. Weve spoken with senator graham in the past to get his comments on policy and politics, but weve never had the opportunity to speak with Jamie Harrison, until now. Jamie harrison, its so nice to talk to you. I think for people in the north like me, we have this sort of vision of the south and sometimes maybe its not an accurate vision but has the south changed when it comes to Race Relations . Jaime you know, one of the things i had in this race and i talked about this for a long time is its the emergence of what i call the new south. A new south that is bold, that is inclusive, that is diverse. You take a look at the seat that i am actually vying for right now, this was the seat of john c. Calooun. It was the seat of strom thurmond. It was the seat of a man called ben pitchfork tillman. And ben tillman was governor of South Carolina. But he was a United States senator who would go to the floor of the u. S. Senate and talk about the joys of lynching of black folks. This was the first state to secede from the union because of the issue of slavery. But we have the opportunity here in this election to also become the very first state to have two africanamerican senators serving at the very same time. And so i believe that we are at a crossroads. And the question is, do we stay in the old south or do we move forward boldly and walk into the light of the new south . And i hope were going to choose the new south. Soledad the judge, amy coney barrett, is moving to the senate now, and theres really not much that democrats can do to stop it. So lets move past is there going to be a vote. How would you vote on her nomination and why . Jamie well, im still listening to the testimonies and would love to hear more from her in terms of what are the settled law, particularly as it relates to civil rights in this country, whether brown vs. Board is good law and settled law. Some of the other issues that the, you know, womens rights and roe vs. Wade. You know, the Lgbt Community in terms of marriage equality, i do not believe that we need to roll back the civil rights of folks in this country. You know, we need to live up to those words that Thomas Jefferson said that he said all men. I say all people are created equal. And i believe as a country, we have been progressing towards that goal line. And i see and i believe any retreat to that is dangerous. And we cant allow that. But i would love to hear more concrete where she stands on those issues. Soil we hear Democratic Candidates often say, listen, the a. C. A. Isnt perfect. How would you improve the a. C. A. . What would you do to fix it . Jaime well, one of the things is i got there are a few holes of the a. C. A. One, mental health, dental health, and vision are fairly weakened in the program. And i would love to see us make those much more robust. One of the things that we saw as a result of the coronavirus is that when you lose your job, many of us also lose our health insurance. So the question is, what happens next . Where do you go then to make sure youre covered and so i want to make sure that this is a Good Alternative for folks if they dont have employerbased health care. Soledad now, we know that the election, you know, like there is a massive divide, which we all know. Lets say youre elected, how do you go about healing that divide . Whats step number one, two, and three . Jaime its good for people to stand up in this country and just to say enough is a enough. Thats why we need folks to go out and vote, demonstrate, reject this type of behavior and reject this type of environment in our country. And i think thats a very first step. And then the second step is to find folks of goodwill and try to work with them to move things forward. Soledad Jamie Harrison, so nice to talk to you. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it. Jaime thank you so much, soledad. Its good to see you. Soledad likewise. We extended an invitation to senator graham but he declined. Next on matter of fact how dynamite and death led to one of the highest symbols of peace in the world. Plus, w. F. H. , zoom bomb, quarantini how many pandemic words have you added to your vocabulary . But first riots erupted when the u. S. Supreme court forced this city to integrate its schools. The long shadow that decision still casts decades later. A woman who was young had covid19. I remember her because she had a bracelet that had the names of her children. She asked me, doctor, am i going to be okay . and i could not give her the answer that i wanted to give her. There is no excuse for why we dont have this under control at this point. Joe biden listens to medical experts. He actually has a plan that does the things that we should have been doing many months ago. And joe biden is not going to let his ego get in the way of fighting the disease. Ff pac is responsible for the content of this ad. Come on lets hide in the attic. No. In the basement. Why cant we just get in the running car . Are you crazy . Lets hide behind the chainsaws. Smart. Yeah. Ok. If youre in a horror movie, you make poor decisions. Its what you do. This was a good idea. Shhhh. Im being quiet. Youre breathing on me if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Lets go to the cemetery soledad welcome back, everybody. For nearly two years, matter of fact has been reporting in louisville, kentucky, to follow one of the nations most ambitious urban renewal plans. With a price tag of nearly 1 billion, the project is set to transform the citys west end. But the cost is not what makes the plan ambitious. Its the goal to build up the neighborhood without pushing out the people whove always lived there. Something that happens once new housing, shops, and services pop up in revitalized communities. In this installment of russell rising, we look at the role Public Schools play in the renewal plans. 12yearold aliya neighbors lives in louisvilles west end and attended her local elementary school. It did not go well. Aliya it was very rough. Teachers didnt care. And they would just let stuff happen. They wasnt teaching us nothing for real. We didnt go on many field trips either. Soledad there were other problems, especially around reading, according to aliyas mother cheron wyatt. Cheron you know, she just wasnt catching on to it. They tried to pull her out of class, but it was like they were so overwhelmed they didnt. It fell through. They couldnt do the oneonone that she kind of needed. They would pass on to the next grade, but she wasnt really learning anything. Soledad on the west end its not uncommon. Michelle as long as weve had standardized tests in this city, the results have shown that our children in the west side of louisville or black children throughout the city have not done as well. Soledad Michelle Pennix was a Public School principal in louisville for 22 years. Michelle i think on the west side, the reason theyre lagging behind because there hasnt been a true commitment from Jefferson County Public Schools to support them with the resources they need to be successful. Soledad how the west end got this way goes back nearly 50 years to the start of louisvilles battles over school desegregation. In 1975, white residents here reacted with fury to a plan to integrate schools through mandatory busing. They failed to stop it, but did manage to change it in ways that would have unforeseen consequences on the west end for decades to come. It was black students who were going to be bused and not the white students whod be bused into West Louisville. Marty the burden of diversity has only been on black students mostly. Soledad marty pollio is the superintendent of schools. Marty and about 95 of our students who are bused are black students, predominantly from West Louisville, which has led to the School District not investing in that specific area of town. Soledad busing black students led to a steep drop in enrollment in schools on the west end. Several school buildings, like this one, were converted into apartments. Among the few schools that stayed open was shawnee academy, where superintendent marty pollio got his start in teaching. Marty i knew there was a floor right above my classroom, but i didnt know what was up there. I was a firstyear teacher and i asked what was up there. This was in 1997. Because of declining enrollment at shawnee, he said the district shut that floor down 16 years ago. Soledad today, shawnee is undergoing a 40 million renovation, part of a sweeping plan to undo the structural damages caused by busing. Marty we believe were going to build two middle schools, a high school, and fix the academy at shawnee at the cost of about 250 million. Soledad kym rice is shawnees principal. Kym lets go and look at this classroom. Soledad on the new third floor, High Schoolers will get a start on their careers. Kym itll have our aviation classroom, a part for our manufacturing classroom, a part for our Interactive Media classroom. Soledad to get more west end students to enroll the district wants to relax busing and give students more options closer to home. After a rough start in the west in a west end school, aliya neighbors was reassigned elsewhere. Now shes bused to kroz bee Crosby Middle School in a predominantly white suburb, a 30minute ride from her home. Her mother, cheron wyatt. Cheron oh, she loves it. And theyre very attentive to what she needs. They actually had, like, a tutor that comes to the class. They dont take her out of the class. She loves school now. Its a totally different little girl. Soledad brothers mershon and Marcellous Malone also prefer busing. Each riding to schools 30 minutes from their home. Mershon my school that i go to in the east, it gives more opportunity, and theres more clubs, and theres more resources for kids to have than at another school that is in the west. Soledad and how about for you, marcellous . Marcellous id rather go to the school that im at because i feel like my school is worth the 20, 30minute wait on the bus. Soledad one day, more children in the west end may opt for schools closer to home. Thats the longterm goal. But West Louisville doesnt really have enough schools to be like a real choice, right . Marty at this time, absolutely not. What we have to do is invest. If i could i wish we could make it happen overnight. But instead, what we have to do is do the hard work to make that change. Soledad coming up why this doctor says you should not teach children to be colorblind. Dr. Eberhardt to think about race, you also ot encourage them not to be aware of the discrimination that comes from color. Soledad plus, he was once dubbed the angel of death but now has a Lasting Legacy of peace. Soledad have you ever stopped to think about how your brain is wired . Well, the brain categorizes people and experiences as a way of organizing our thought processes. Those categories from both form both conscious and unconscious bias. As part of the matter of fact listening tour, we are exploring the impact of bias. I talked with Standford University professor jennifer eberhardt, author of the book biased uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do. Jennifer eberhardt, so nice to see you. Your book is called bias. Youre the winner of a macarthur genius grant. And you focus a lot on bias and the brain. Are we just wired to be biased . Dr. Eberhardt well, bias is in part a function of how our brains are wired. And so the idea is that to deal with all the information that were bombarded with, you know, every fraction of a second. Right. Our brains are chunking things into categories. Now, we also categorize people, right . We categorize people into social groups. And then once weve had them categorized, we form beliefs and attitudes about individuals. And those beliefs and attitudes are what we call bias. So who is criminal and whos safe . Whos guilty and whos innocent . Whos powerful and whos weak . Whos deserving and whos undeserving . So society is actually playing a role here. Its not just all inside. Its what were taking from outside and how were making sense of it. Soledad you tell a story about your son whos 5 years old, and i think you guys were on a plane together. Can i ask you to repeat that story . Dr. Eberhardt my son was just really excited about being on this airplane with mommy. Hes like looking all around and hes checking everybody out. And he sees this man and he says, hey, that guy looks like daddy. And so i look at the man and he doesnt look anything at all like my husband, like nothing at all. So i start to look around the plane and i realized that this man was the only black man on the plane. And i thought, all right. Im going to have a little talk with my son about how not all black people look alike. But before i could say anything my son, he looks at me. He says, i hope that man doesnt rob the plane. And i said, what . What did you say . And he said it again. He says, well, i hope he doesnt rob the plane. And i said, well, you know, daddy wouldnt rob a plane. And he said, yeah, yeah, i know. And i said, well, why would you say that . And he looked at me with this really sad face and he said, i dont know why i said that. I dont know why i was thinking that. That association between blackness and crime made its way into the mind of my 5yearold and it makes its way into all of our minds. Soledad whats at work that youre trying to highlight in that story for the rest of us . Dr. Eberhardt well, i mean, one thing thats at work is to realize how young we receive these messages from outside from the world. But its also us, right, children learn from us. Theyre looking at us. Theyre looking at our reactions to determine how to regard other people and how theyre regarded by society. Soledad so jennifer, is it possible for parents to train their children not to operate from those biases . Dr. Eberhardt i think we know from the research that when you encourage children not to think about race you also encourage them not to be aware of the discrimination that comes from color. Just because were not talking to our kids about race, does it doesnt mean that theyre not absorbing all the stuff that were absorbing in the world. And the worst thing we can do is leave them on their own to figure it out. Soledad jennifer eberhardt, so nice to talk to you. Thank you. To learn more about bias and the impact on our lives, go to matteroffact. Tv. Watch our recent special the hard truth about bias, which includes guests like oscar winner john ridly, comedian trae crowder, former nba player ahtahn thomas. And a social experience where total strangers meet to discuss confrontations that went viral. Coming up remember when an elbow bump was just an injury . Will covid19 change the way we talk to each other for good . But first, how one organization is meeting the needs of a global food shortage one meal at a time. Soledad now to a weekly feature we like to call were paying attention even if youre too busy. The work of the u. N. World food program, the Worlds Largest organization addressing food insecurity, won a coveted award this week. The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Matter of fact chronicled their relief efforts with our reporting about the impact of the covid19 pandemic on the global food chain and the challenges for refugees trying to assist their home countries. News of the award made us curious about how the Nobel Peace Prize came to be. Alfred know nobel, whose name is now synonymous with the peace prize, was once known as the angel of death. Nobel, a 19th century swedish chemist worked on creating explosives. In 1864, one of his nitroglycerin factories exploded, killing one of his brothers. He continued his research and eventually created dynamite. In an effort to recreate his legacy, nobels will set up a fund to award monetary prizes for, quote, the best work for fraternity among nations. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901. Still ahead on matter of fact p. P. E. , w. F. H. , and hand hygiene. Why the language of a lockdown could stick with us fo did you know that feeling sluggish or weighed down could be signs that your digestive system isnt working at its best . Taking metamucil every day can help. Metamucil supports your daily Digestive Health using a special plantbased fiber called psyllium. Psyllium works by forming a gel in your digestive system to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down. Metamucils gelling action also helps to lower cholesterol and slows sugar absorption to promote healthy blood sugar levels. So, start feeling lighter and more energetic. By taking metamucil every day. Plus why you might have some difficulties finding a new family friend for the holidays. Today in the bay. Monday from 4 30 to 7. Happening today. Artists from all over the country and even the bay area soledad finally, the pandemic has changed how we work, go to school, shop, and even how we talk. The authors of the South Carolina<\/a> plays in president ial politics. Earlier this year we visited the state and spoke to college of charleston professors h. Gibbs knotts and jordan ragusa, coauthors of first in the south why South Carolina<\/a>s president ial primary matters. Who do you guys think will win it from the democratic side . Id be very surprised if biden doesnt win the South Carolina<\/a> primary. And that could be enough to get the momentum to be able to get the nomination. Soledad both men accurately predicted joe biden would win the states primary and also his partys nomination. But neither gibbs or ragusa could have predicted just how close the race would be between Lindsey Graham<\/a> and Jamie Harrison<\/a> who are now virtually deadlocked with a little more than two weeks until election day. Weve spoken with senator graham in the past to get his comments on policy and politics, but weve never had the opportunity to speak with Jamie Harrison<\/a>, until now. Jamie harrison, its so nice to talk to you. I think for people in the north like me, we have this sort of vision of the south and sometimes maybe its not an accurate vision but has the south changed when it comes to Race Relations<\/a> . Jaime you know, one of the things i had in this race and i talked about this for a long time is its the emergence of what i call the new south. A new south that is bold, that is inclusive, that is diverse. You take a look at the seat that i am actually vying for right now, this was the seat of john c. Calooun. It was the seat of strom thurmond. It was the seat of a man called ben pitchfork tillman. And ben tillman was governor of South Carolina<\/a>. But he was a United States<\/a> senator who would go to the floor of the u. S. Senate and talk about the joys of lynching of black folks. This was the first state to secede from the union because of the issue of slavery. But we have the opportunity here in this election to also become the very first state to have two africanamerican senators serving at the very same time. And so i believe that we are at a crossroads. And the question is, do we stay in the old south or do we move forward boldly and walk into the light of the new south . And i hope were going to choose the new south. Soledad the judge, amy coney barrett, is moving to the senate now, and theres really not much that democrats can do to stop it. So lets move past is there going to be a vote. How would you vote on her nomination and why . Jamie well, im still listening to the testimonies and would love to hear more from her in terms of what are the settled law, particularly as it relates to civil rights in this country, whether brown vs. Board is good law and settled law. Some of the other issues that the, you know, womens rights and roe vs. Wade. You know, the Lgbt Community<\/a> in terms of marriage equality, i do not believe that we need to roll back the civil rights of folks in this country. You know, we need to live up to those words that Thomas Jefferson<\/a> said that he said all men. I say all people are created equal. And i believe as a country, we have been progressing towards that goal line. And i see and i believe any retreat to that is dangerous. And we cant allow that. But i would love to hear more concrete where she stands on those issues. Soil we hear Democratic Candidates<\/a> often say, listen, the a. C. A. Isnt perfect. How would you improve the a. C. A. . What would you do to fix it . Jaime well, one of the things is i got there are a few holes of the a. C. A. One, mental health, dental health, and vision are fairly weakened in the program. And i would love to see us make those much more robust. One of the things that we saw as a result of the coronavirus is that when you lose your job, many of us also lose our health insurance. So the question is, what happens next . Where do you go then to make sure youre covered and so i want to make sure that this is a Good Alternative<\/a> for folks if they dont have employerbased health care. Soledad now, we know that the election, you know, like there is a massive divide, which we all know. Lets say youre elected, how do you go about healing that divide . Whats step number one, two, and three . Jaime its good for people to stand up in this country and just to say enough is a enough. Thats why we need folks to go out and vote, demonstrate, reject this type of behavior and reject this type of environment in our country. And i think thats a very first step. And then the second step is to find folks of goodwill and try to work with them to move things forward. Soledad Jamie Harrison<\/a>, so nice to talk to you. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it. Jaime thank you so much, soledad. Its good to see you. Soledad likewise. We extended an invitation to senator graham but he declined. Next on matter of fact how dynamite and death led to one of the highest symbols of peace in the world. Plus, w. F. H. , zoom bomb, quarantini how many pandemic words have you added to your vocabulary . But first riots erupted when the u. S. Supreme court forced this city to integrate its schools. The long shadow that decision still casts decades later. A woman who was young had covid19. I remember her because she had a bracelet that had the names of her children. She asked me, doctor, am i going to be okay . and i could not give her the answer that i wanted to give her. There is no excuse for why we dont have this under control at this point. Joe biden listens to medical experts. He actually has a plan that does the things that we should have been doing many months ago. And joe biden is not going to let his ego get in the way of fighting the disease. Ff pac is responsible for the content of this ad. Come on lets hide in the attic. No. In the basement. Why cant we just get in the running car . Are you crazy . Lets hide behind the chainsaws. Smart. Yeah. Ok. If youre in a horror movie, you make poor decisions. Its what you do. This was a good idea. Shhhh. Im being quiet. Youre breathing on me if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Lets go to the cemetery soledad welcome back, everybody. For nearly two years, matter of fact has been reporting in louisville, kentucky, to follow one of the nations most ambitious urban renewal plans. With a price tag of nearly 1 billion, the project is set to transform the citys west end. But the cost is not what makes the plan ambitious. Its the goal to build up the neighborhood without pushing out the people whove always lived there. Something that happens once new housing, shops, and services pop up in revitalized communities. In this installment of russell rising, we look at the role Public Schools<\/a> play in the renewal plans. 12yearold aliya neighbors lives in louisvilles west end and attended her local elementary school. It did not go well. Aliya it was very rough. Teachers didnt care. And they would just let stuff happen. They wasnt teaching us nothing for real. We didnt go on many field trips either. Soledad there were other problems, especially around reading, according to aliyas mother cheron wyatt. Cheron you know, she just wasnt catching on to it. They tried to pull her out of class, but it was like they were so overwhelmed they didnt. It fell through. They couldnt do the oneonone that she kind of needed. They would pass on to the next grade, but she wasnt really learning anything. Soledad on the west end its not uncommon. Michelle as long as weve had standardized tests in this city, the results have shown that our children in the west side of louisville or black children throughout the city have not done as well. Soledad Michelle Pennix<\/a> was a Public School<\/a> principal in louisville for 22 years. Michelle i think on the west side, the reason theyre lagging behind because there hasnt been a true commitment from Jefferson County<\/a> Public Schools<\/a> to support them with the resources they need to be successful. Soledad how the west end got this way goes back nearly 50 years to the start of louisvilles battles over school desegregation. In 1975, white residents here reacted with fury to a plan to integrate schools through mandatory busing. They failed to stop it, but did manage to change it in ways that would have unforeseen consequences on the west end for decades to come. It was black students who were going to be bused and not the white students whod be bused into West Louisville<\/a>. Marty the burden of diversity has only been on black students mostly. Soledad marty pollio is the superintendent of schools. Marty and about 95 of our students who are bused are black students, predominantly from West Louisville<\/a>, which has led to the School District<\/a> not investing in that specific area of town. Soledad busing black students led to a steep drop in enrollment in schools on the west end. Several school buildings, like this one, were converted into apartments. Among the few schools that stayed open was shawnee academy, where superintendent marty pollio got his start in teaching. Marty i knew there was a floor right above my classroom, but i didnt know what was up there. I was a firstyear teacher and i asked what was up there. This was in 1997. Because of declining enrollment at shawnee, he said the district shut that floor down 16 years ago. Soledad today, shawnee is undergoing a 40 million renovation, part of a sweeping plan to undo the structural damages caused by busing. Marty we believe were going to build two middle schools, a high school, and fix the academy at shawnee at the cost of about 250 million. Soledad kym rice is shawnees principal. Kym lets go and look at this classroom. Soledad on the new third floor, High Schoolers<\/a> will get a start on their careers. Kym itll have our aviation classroom, a part for our manufacturing classroom, a part for our Interactive Media<\/a> classroom. Soledad to get more west end students to enroll the district wants to relax busing and give students more options closer to home. After a rough start in the west in a west end school, aliya neighbors was reassigned elsewhere. Now shes bused to kroz bee Crosby Middle School<\/a> in a predominantly white suburb, a 30minute ride from her home. Her mother, cheron wyatt. Cheron oh, she loves it. And theyre very attentive to what she needs. They actually had, like, a tutor that comes to the class. They dont take her out of the class. She loves school now. Its a totally different little girl. Soledad brothers mershon and Marcellous Malone<\/a> also prefer busing. Each riding to schools 30 minutes from their home. Mershon my school that i go to in the east, it gives more opportunity, and theres more clubs, and theres more resources for kids to have than at another school that is in the west. Soledad and how about for you, marcellous . Marcellous id rather go to the school that im at because i feel like my school is worth the 20, 30minute wait on the bus. Soledad one day, more children in the west end may opt for schools closer to home. Thats the longterm goal. But West Louisville<\/a> doesnt really have enough schools to be like a real choice, right . Marty at this time, absolutely not. What we have to do is invest. If i could i wish we could make it happen overnight. But instead, what we have to do is do the hard work to make that change. Soledad coming up why this doctor says you should not teach children to be colorblind. Dr. Eberhardt to think about race, you also ot encourage them not to be aware of the discrimination that comes from color. Soledad plus, he was once dubbed the angel of death but now has a Lasting Legacy<\/a> of peace. Soledad have you ever stopped to think about how your brain is wired . Well, the brain categorizes people and experiences as a way of organizing our thought processes. Those categories from both form both conscious and unconscious bias. As part of the matter of fact listening tour, we are exploring the impact of bias. I talked with Standford University<\/a> professor jennifer eberhardt, author of the book biased uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do. Jennifer eberhardt, so nice to see you. Your book is called bias. Youre the winner of a macarthur genius grant. And you focus a lot on bias and the brain. Are we just wired to be biased . Dr. Eberhardt well, bias is in part a function of how our brains are wired. And so the idea is that to deal with all the information that were bombarded with, you know, every fraction of a second. Right. Our brains are chunking things into categories. Now, we also categorize people, right . We categorize people into social groups. And then once weve had them categorized, we form beliefs and attitudes about individuals. And those beliefs and attitudes are what we call bias. So who is criminal and whos safe . Whos guilty and whos innocent . Whos powerful and whos weak . Whos deserving and whos undeserving . So society is actually playing a role here. Its not just all inside. Its what were taking from outside and how were making sense of it. Soledad you tell a story about your son whos 5 years old, and i think you guys were on a plane together. Can i ask you to repeat that story . Dr. Eberhardt my son was just really excited about being on this airplane with mommy. Hes like looking all around and hes checking everybody out. And he sees this man and he says, hey, that guy looks like daddy. And so i look at the man and he doesnt look anything at all like my husband, like nothing at all. So i start to look around the plane and i realized that this man was the only black man on the plane. And i thought, all right. Im going to have a little talk with my son about how not all black people look alike. But before i could say anything my son, he looks at me. He says, i hope that man doesnt rob the plane. And i said, what . What did you say . And he said it again. He says, well, i hope he doesnt rob the plane. And i said, well, you know, daddy wouldnt rob a plane. And he said, yeah, yeah, i know. And i said, well, why would you say that . And he looked at me with this really sad face and he said, i dont know why i said that. I dont know why i was thinking that. That association between blackness and crime made its way into the mind of my 5yearold and it makes its way into all of our minds. Soledad whats at work that youre trying to highlight in that story for the rest of us . Dr. Eberhardt well, i mean, one thing thats at work is to realize how young we receive these messages from outside from the world. But its also us, right, children learn from us. Theyre looking at us. Theyre looking at our reactions to determine how to regard other people and how theyre regarded by society. Soledad so jennifer, is it possible for parents to train their children not to operate from those biases . Dr. Eberhardt i think we know from the research that when you encourage children not to think about race you also encourage them not to be aware of the discrimination that comes from color. Just because were not talking to our kids about race, does it doesnt mean that theyre not absorbing all the stuff that were absorbing in the world. And the worst thing we can do is leave them on their own to figure it out. Soledad jennifer eberhardt, so nice to talk to you. Thank you. To learn more about bias and the impact on our lives, go to matteroffact. Tv. Watch our recent special the hard truth about bias, which includes guests like oscar winner john ridly, comedian trae crowder, former nba player ahtahn thomas. And a social experience where total strangers meet to discuss confrontations that went viral. Coming up remember when an elbow bump was just an injury . Will covid19 change the way we talk to each other for good . But first, how one organization is meeting the needs of a global food shortage one meal at a time. Soledad now to a weekly feature we like to call were paying attention even if youre too busy. The work of the u. N. World food program, the Worlds Largest<\/a> organization addressing food insecurity, won a coveted award this week. The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>. Matter of fact chronicled their relief efforts with our reporting about the impact of the covid19 pandemic on the global food chain and the challenges for refugees trying to assist their home countries. News of the award made us curious about how the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> came to be. Alfred know nobel, whose name is now synonymous with the peace prize, was once known as the angel of death. Nobel, a 19th century swedish chemist worked on creating explosives. In 1864, one of his nitroglycerin factories exploded, killing one of his brothers. He continued his research and eventually created dynamite. In an effort to recreate his legacy, nobels will set up a fund to award monetary prizes for, quote, the best work for fraternity among nations. The first Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> was awarded in 1901. Still ahead on matter of fact p. P. E. , w. F. H. , and hand hygiene. Why the language of a lockdown could stick with us fo did you know that feeling sluggish or weighed down could be signs that your digestive system isnt working at its best . Taking metamucil every day can help. Metamucil supports your daily Digestive Health<\/a> using a special plantbased fiber called psyllium. Psyllium works by forming a gel in your digestive system to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down. Metamucils gelling action also helps to lower cholesterol and slows sugar absorption to promote healthy blood sugar levels. So, start feeling lighter and more energetic. By taking metamucil every day. Plus why you might have some difficulties finding a new family friend for the holidays. Today in the bay. Monday from 4 30 to 7. Happening today. Artists from all over the country and even the bay area soledad finally, the pandemic has changed how we work, go to school, shop, and even how we talk. The authors of the Oxford English<\/a> dictionary said the impact of covid19 on our language is an ongoing story. Theyve added new words or even new definitions to the dictionary. For example, social distancing was previously defined as being aloof and deliberately distancing yourself. But now theres a definition to describe maintaining a specific physical distance from each other. Preferably more than six feet. And when first added in 1981, elbow bump was just an injury. Now, it also describes when two people lightly tap their elbows as a greeting instead of shaking hands. W. F. H. Or working from home, and p. P. E. , or personal protective equipment have also been updated. The next dictionary announcement comes in december. Maybe well see additions like quarantini and zoom fatigue. Thats it for this edition of matter of fact. Im soledad obrien. And ill see you back here next week. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] coming up on Asian Pacific<\/a> america we celebrate Filipino American<\/a> History Month<\/a> with a focus on the Filipino Food<\/a> movement as well as the ever popular dance company. Hello. Im robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozitv and this is Asian Pacific<\/a> america. And we are always so happy to see you on our show. Thank you very much for being here. Good to see you again. 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