turned 17 when he was shot and killed, the only tattoos on his body as revealed bit medical examiner were on his right arm and left wrist. needless to say, instead of ledding jesus take the wheel, i let the reader have it. one would have thought that that was that. then the read r responded with this. the photo was sent from someone who i believe is a trustworthy source. if that photo is not of trayvon martin, i apologize. if? seriously? this is a term for the assumption this reader made about trayvon martin without even checking to see if that picture was an accurate representation. it is the insidious thing called implicit bias. implicit bias referres to the attitudes that affect our understanding and decisions in an unconscious manner. those attitudes force us to have feelings about other people because of their race, ethnicity, age, even appearance. that s exactly what this new report found.
i pride myself that i have tutored in inner city minneapolis. okay. that was another jesus take the wheel moment. isn t his tweet an example of implicit bias that we ve been discussing? it s ignorant racism is what it s an example of. it s so frustrating to me when these politicians get on television and they like to pretend like, oh, i m not really racist, i just say ignorant things and you should excuse me. no, it s absolutely racist. don t let him off the hook for it. i tutor, so i m not racist. the amazing thing about what paul ryan said was the fact he also said that he wanted us to kind of help out these poor black people. let s congressman ryan speak for himself. i think we have that. you know, your buddy charles murray or bob putnam over at harvard, those guys have written books on this, which is we have