The Living Consequences

A new study came across my desk this week, which suggests that whites who have experience distinguishing the faces of individual black people may display less “implicit racial bias.”

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Inspired by a recent exchange of views on another post on this blog, I’d like to offer a few statistics about race and criminal behavior in the U.S.

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, in a speech recognizing Black History Month, has told employees at the Justice Department that the U.S. is “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race relations.

Holder, the first black attorney general in the nation’s history, explained that “this nation has still not come to grips with its racial past” and that, if we are to make progress in race relations, “we must feel comfortable enough with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us.”

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Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe has a column today in which he explores the evidence that following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, our nation’s long history of racial segregation did not arise naturally. Instead, racial segregation and the elaborate system of Jim Crow laws throughout the nation had to be painstakingly assembled in the face of considerable public opposition or indifference.

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