I found the categorization of black and white people based on pictures and the negative and positive words as insufficient in accurately testing for a racial bias. My reasoning for this is the large amounts of variables that are not controlled in this testing. Some such variables include: vision, reaction time, past connotation with words, perceived understanding of words, and fine motor skills, as well as hand eye coordination. I do not thing sorting images and words on a computer is an accurate representation of bias testing. I think this is far too messy of an equation. I think almost everyone (if not everyone) has some degree of racial bias, but I do not think this test can accurately test for this, because it is not realistic and involves too many other factors. For example, a computer skilled, fact driven, well sighted person, could potentially score no racial bias on this, even if they in fact had a high racial bias. The result, faulty data.
“With five percent of the world's population, the US incarcerates 25 percent of the world's prisoners” (Daisy Hudson, Noisey Magazine. 2014). That same year “African Americans constituted 2.3 million, or 34%, of the total 6.8 million correctional population, though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately 32% of the US population, they comprised 56% of all incarcerated people in 2015 (NAACP). The prison system in America serves not as a correctional facility, but a container for which black bodies are buried alive. The conditions of which inmates are kept, the disparity in numbers and portrayal of those incarcerated. There is no question that factors such as education, employment, mental and physical health; the lack of access to such resources targets and propels African Americans through the pipeline to prison. In our history, it seems that prison, or largely the criminalization of African Americans, Black men in particularly, has been used as a tactic of oppr...
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