- Proximity is the fastest way to change values
- Conversation, even thinking about having one, is a powerful change
- There is a large gap between perception is equity gap
- (I don’t see the connection between Rights and Treatment. I understand that we have equal Rights but that is not translating into equal treatment.)
- When other people are around, people are less likely to help
- “Bias Credentials” are when we support a person of color and we feel entitled to judge other people of color
- (This is the, “I have a black friend, so it is okay” moment)
- Racism is more of a sticker than a tattoo
- People are more often complicit than racist
- Getting benefits is different from having detractors… They are not opposites
- A strong grounding in authority is associated with racism
- When we feel diminished, we are comfortable to diminish others
- There will always be an “other” group but it is a malleable group
- Brown people have been settling white people since forever
- Key identity trigger: Am I competent? Am I a good person? Am I worthy of love?
- Witnessing discrimination tends to lower our opinion of the person being discriminated
- Compassion is not empathy
- Humans do better recognizing affiliation than race
- Try to add extra categories (try for 4) in addition to race
- Use concurrent validity to avoid timing or measuring bias
- Make sure the thing you are measuring matches the thing you want to improve
- It’s less about having the right answers and more about asking the right questions