During this unit on race I realized that sometimes I have implicit bias. After watching Angry Eye and Crash I noticed that I had some of the superstitions and made the same assumptions as the characters. The first time I watched Crash during the scene of the young white policeman and african american car stealer, I assumed that the african american car stealer had a gun in his hand.
But, I feel like I redeemed myself of these thoughts because I agreed with everything Jane Elliot was saying in Angry Eye. People think its the end of the world when someone talks behind their back or they get a C on a paper, but people of color go through racial discrimination every day. They cannot walk away from their problems like the white girl did during the activity. She knew it was part of a lecture and that she would receive college credit for it, but she acted like it was killing her.
Also, I learned never to tell a person of color that you see don't see their color. That is removing a part of their culture and identity. The world is not black and white, and people need to acknowledge the differences between each other in a positive way for racial discrimination to disappear.
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