Quoted: Patricia Devine, professor of social psychology at the University of Wisconsin, has written that three factors need to be in place to break a “prejudice habit.” One is that we must acknowledge that we hold biases, even if they are unconscious. The second is that we must be motivated to change. And the third is that we must give ourselves time to practice new ways of thinking, acting, and making decisions. I suspect that, as a nation, Step One — acknowledgment — is our major stumbling block. We have been in a collective denial about the extent, reality, and real-world effects of our racial biases for a very long time.
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