How do you change your behaviors when you discover your unconscious bias? Your attitude affects your behavior creating a vicious cycle that must be broken or else there will be damage done. The easiest example of this happens almost daily with students and teachers.

1. Reset.

2. How do you reset?
Respect
Power
Courage
New behavior

3. Micro-Aggressions
Daily small insults or slights
Examples:
“You don’t sound Black”
“Go ahead Rodriguez” (the problem is his last name is Sanchez)
A biracial young lady is asked, “What are you?”
“What do they speak in Japan? Asian?”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/racial-microagressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis

4. Unconscious Bias - Socialization
Unaware of bias toward certain people or symbols

5. Power Definitions
Unconscious Bias
Stereotype
Prejudice
Racism
Profile

6. American History X (1998)
Derek and Danny
Murder
Jail
Probation
Death

7. Me? Change?

8. Resist
“I know you don’t like them!”
“When did you start looking out for them?”
“They don’t deserve your pity.”
“I can’t believe you are not laughing!”
“How can you be around them?”
“Why are you taking their side?”

9. Perception
Perception is your reality…
What do you see? Why?

10. “You can’t say that”
Wrong is wrong even if
everyone agrees and right is
right even if no one agrees!
If you have to be the only one
standing for right, stand tall
like the Statue of Liberty!

11. What you should take
A new attitude creates new behavior
Elements of a reset
Get a new perspective