https://contemporaryracism.org/293/trying-to-get-rid-of-my-bias/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:11:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/293/trying-to-get-rid-of-my-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Fri, 06 May 2011 02:22:24 +0000 http://www.professorwolfe.com/blog/?p=293#comment-64 I think that we can all understand why people from New York and New Jersey who knew as many people as you did, Keith, who were killed that day would have developed a bias against Muslims. And I can also understand your feeling ashamed in having that bias because rationally we know that the Muslim community on the whole is not to blame for 9/11. I think the best thing you can do if you want to try to get over that bias is to expose yourself to positive aspects of Muslim culure and Muslims you may know. Hopefully, educated people like you who were affected so personally by 9/11 can actively try to let your idea of Muslims incoporate more positive aspects than those associated with 9/11. I think this is a way to move forward and grieve those lost on that day without feeling like it caused you to hold racist ideologies that you are not comfortable with. The only way to start minimizing how common this racism is is for educated, well-intentioned people like us to set an example.

]]> https://contemporaryracism.org/293/trying-to-get-rid-of-my-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:46:42 +0000 http://www.professorwolfe.com/blog/?p=293#comment-41 Very moving comment, and I agree completely I was also very effected by the attacks and live in a town right outside the city and this comment brought up a lot of the same feelings you have. Many people were lost in my town and I find it hard to extinguish the bias myself. I am very ashamed of it, but I think you bring up an important point that it is hard but it is defiantly worth the effort to do so and fight this bias. Great reflection!

]]> https://contemporaryracism.org/293/trying-to-get-rid-of-my-bias/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:44:30 +0000 http://www.professorwolfe.com/blog/?p=293#comment-37 I’m in tears reading your post. I want to comment yet at the same time, I dont know how to. In an attempt to putting myself in your shoes and trying to feel the emotional battle that you are experiencing, I feel utterly confused. I cant see what is right. On one hand, I feel the anger and loss that your community must have and probably still does feel, and how this fuels a racist and discriminatory fire. On the other hand, there is the guilt of this fire burning. The feeling of wanting to put it out, combatting with the fear of getting burnt. I am proud to have peers such as yourself, that through it all you still come to the conclusion of forgiveness and progression in overcoming personal biases.

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