But I am amused and amazed nonetheless. 

I was just trying to figure this out and it’s messier than I thought. If one grandparent were black he would be 25%. If one great grandparent were black he would be 12.5%. It’s like a NCAA bracket, so nearest I can figure 3 of the sweet 16 were black, but that’s 18.75%. Going many generations higher we can get closer…

Here’s a few pointers:

Not only do white people face no consequences for being racist, there can be real consequences for NOT being racist in some places. Doubly so if you actually try to challenge someone on their racism. I honestly think things have become worse in rural Michigan in my lifetime. The (white) people are absolutely loaded…

What is the test? I want to take it 

We’re all programmed in some kind of way to have these biases. I encounter other black men in person and online daily that let theirs fly freely and it’s everything from self hatred directed at black women to blatant homophobia and transphobia. I was raised to have all these same biases even tho my Christian…

I think a lot of them don’t even see how they are being played. And/or they don’t care because they think it is worthwhile to have someone to feel superior to. The kind of people who are still against Obamacare even though they lost their own health care due to their state legislature purposely working to make it…

Some of us here write about the different life areas in which it manifests, too (basically, all of them, just in different ways)

I get it; that was more of a rhetorical flourish. I know I should.

Think of it more like personal hygiene: you need to keep up on hygiene if you don’t want to smell.  This is a test that will help you determine where you smell and whether your deodorant is working as well as you think it is.

Take the test. Having an implicit bias does not mean you are a racist, it means you grew up in a racist society. Internalizing and acting on your biases makes you a racist. Ignoring you potential biases and not actively working to correct them leads you open to acting or behaving in a racist way and does nothing to…

Last week at work we had a speaker on implicit bias, and the science is interesting, if a bit discouraging. At any moment, our brains are processing about 11 million sensory inputs—but only about 40 of them consciously. The rest are being run through our learned filters at lightning speed, including responses to…

A few weeks back I came up with the Invisible Fence model of society. It’s probably nothing new in concept, but it works something like this: just as a dog will feel entitled to go to any part of the yard where he doesn’t get zapped by his collar, so people in a given society will feel entitled to engaged in behavior…

His co-workers don’t get it. He can make those jokes, they can’t.

It’s like a Twilight Zone episode.

He’s not black enough until one of his old buddies shoots him during a routine traffic stop.

facts

Cleon. Brown.

I bet all that black joke shit was hilarious before it applied to him.

He does have one thing to be proud of, though. He’s still more black than Rachel Dolezal.