The document discusses personal reflections on belonging or being excluded from groups and feelings of powerlessness, hopelessness, or anger. It also summarizes research showing people more quickly shoot armed targets if black and don't shoot unarmed targets as quickly if white, processing stereotype-consistent targets more easily. It poses questions about whether we are trained to discriminate and how prejudice is learned from authority figures, and whether we can or should be colorblind. One reaction quotes judging people by what's inside, not outside.

1. Personal Reflections
How does it feel to belong to a group?
Have you ever had the opportunity to
finally belong to a group you had
wanted to join? What was the
experience like?
Have you ever been excluded from a
group? If so, how does it feel?

2. Personal Reflections
Provide examples from your own life
when you have felt:
 Powerless
 Hopeless
 Angry
 That you just can’t win

3. The Police Officer’s Dilemma
Research from the University of Chicago
Participants shoot an armed target more
quickly and more often when that target is
Black, rather than White. However,
participants decide not to shoot an unarmed
target more quickly and more often when the
target is White, rather than Black. In essence,
participants seem to process stereotype-
consistent targets (armed Blacks and
unarmed Whites) more easily than counter-
stereotypic targets (unarmed Blacks and
armed Whites).
Try it for yourself - The Police Officer's Dilemma

4. Essential Questions – “A Class Divided”
Are we trained to discriminate or be
prejudiced?
How do we learn prejudice?
What authority figures teach prejudice/
discrimination?
Can we/should we be colorblind?

5. Reaction
“You judge people
by what’s on the
inside, not on the
outside.”

6. Reaction
“You judge people
by what’s on the
inside, not on the
outside.”