Share an image/article or video that you have engaged with or found particularly impactful over the last week and provide a short explanation as to why you’ve chosen it to share or how it affected you.

I have chosen this discussion between Trevor Noah and Dr. Jennifer l. Eberhardt. This is a discussion about bias. People usually associate bias with racism and they are actually two different things. Racism is “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior” whereas bias is “disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair”. The conversation brought out the idea of unconscious bias, which Trevor Noah gave an example when your child sees a black man in the airport and he says: “I hope that he doesn’t rob the plane”. But when you ask him why he said that, the child appears to not know the reason. Unconscious biases are learned stereotypes that are automatic, unintentional, deeply ingrained, universal, and able to influence behavior. And to change this, Dr. Eberhardt suggested, “would take time”. Which I absolutely agree, because unconscious bias is learned by people in a long time in their environment, and to reverse and change that would require a lot of education and mindset change. However, it is definitely not impossible.