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Reversing that tide would create dense Black communities, and that density would translate into statewide political power.

SOUTH WINDSOR — The project manager for the state’s Racial Profiling Prohibition Project will lead an online discussion tonight on implicit bias. “We are hoping as a group that we will come away with an understanding that everyone absorbs a biased perspective in one way or another just by their family culture or their own life experience, and that bias has more to do with a cultured perspective than a negative slant,” said Mary Etter, the director of South Windsor Library, one of the sponsors of the program. The library in collaboration with the Human Relations Commission ...

As a human who likes to barbecue. it might have extra if you're friendly. >> a lot of the research out there is focused on sort of racial attitudes ask ask peopnd in surveys are you racist? they will say no. i'm having one last meeting with john diamond, an expert on the subject. i was not familiar with the term implicit bias until four years ago. something happened to me and it was referred to implicit buy ib. i called it racism. >> yeah, so tony green wall established project implicit about 20 years ago so what they were trying to figure out is what is going on in people's minds before they ...

Studies, is that most americans have implicit biases along racial lines. that's just the truth. project implicit is the biggest one of these. they looked at hundreds of thousands of people who have taken this test. it's partially maintained by harvard, and it shows that when you break it down, whites have an incredibly high implicit racial bias that is pro right and anti-black. and they use it by asians and blacks and whatever. what is most interesting to me is that when you look at who had the least amount of bias, that group is african-americans. it's even. it's more even than the rest of th...

Webb show. and hip-hop artist naz. welcome to you all. appreciate you being here. [ applause ] that picture where george zimmerman is black and trayvon martin is white, do you think had those roles been reversed this case would have played out in the same way? >> i think that's an important question to ask. it is really hard to know, but what we know from the science, and you know a lot of the science, i know a lot of this science from looking at the studies, is that most americans have implicit biases along racial lines. that's just the truth. project implicit is the biggest one of these. the...