10 ways white people are more racist than they realize

1. College professors, across race/ethnicity and gender, are more likely to respond to queries from students they believe are white males.

2. White people, including white children, are less moved by the pain of people of color, including children of color, than by the pain of fellow whites.

3. White people are more likely to have done illegal drugs than blacks or Latinos, but are far less likely to go to to jail for it.

4. Black men are sentenced to far lengthier prison sentences than white men for the same crimes.

5. White people, including police, see black children as older and less innocent than white children.

6. Black children are more likely to be tried as adults and are given harsher sentences than white children.

7. White people are more likely to support the criminal justice system, including the death penalty, when they think it’s disproportionately punitive toward black people.

8. The more “stereotypically black” a defendant looks in a murder case, the higher the likelihood he will be sentenced to death.

9. Conversely, white people falsely recall black men they perceive as being “smart” as being lighter-skinned.

10. A number of studies find white people view lighter-skinned African Americans (and Latinos) as more intelligent, competent, trustworthy and reliable than their darker-skinned peers.

Racism is comfortable and easy; it helps us make quick, baseless decisions without the taxing act of thinking. The next time you catch yourself having a racist thought or feeling, try not brushing it off. Ask yourself where it came from, what it means and how you can unpack it. 

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