Analysis Of Albert Einsteins Essay On Racial Bias In 1946

#6 - â€Å"Albert Einstein’s Essay on Racial Bias in 1946† by Trent Gilliss and Albert Einstein â€Å"The Negro Question† by Albert Einstein is an incredibly smart, thought-provoking, and forward-thinking for something that came out in the 1940s. Aside from the idea that discriminating black people is bad, many of the ideas expressed here are concepts that some people still do not understand. For example, the idea that one should be more mature before dealing with the political or complex issues of a nation is something people still do not realize today. Young people are still criticized for having their own possibly ill-informed opinion, even if they were raised to think that way. In addition, Einstein’s example of Aristotle thinking slaves were†¦show more content†¦This anxiety about a possible deep, hidden racism in America has not only been exclusive to Maryland. With the combination of the election and police brutality, there is no doubt that anxiety and tensions are very high in the current state of our country. #8 - â€Å"Who, me? Biased?† by The New York Times Implicit bias is a concept that originally gained esteem during the 2016 election. It is defined as unconscious assumptions or stereotypes that are race-related. For example, if someone pulled up two pictures, a white female and a black male, and told you that one of them committed a crime, you are likely to choose the black male. You’re not racist, you have just been consuming all this media and images that paint black people or specifically males as being criminals. There are many options to attempt to fix this bias implanted in you. First, one should take a test to see if they even have a bias in the first place. If yes, then they should attempt to overcome it. They can do this by either hanging out with people of another ethnicity to learn who they are or to address that the racial anxiety exists and to work from there. In my opinion, this idea of implicit bias is incredibly important for people to learn about and p ossibly fix if necessary. Before this video, I had never heard of implicit bias and I always just figured I was stereotyping people whenever I had thoughts like the ones presented in the