Essay On Racial Bias

Racial Bias has always been an epidemic across the United States even generations back and modern society. The traces of hostility and biased mistreatment towards specific races continue on existing today, although many people attempt to fight for change. An article, by Morland, J. K (1987), which focuses on the development of racial bias in children, clearly suggests how racial bias was viewed earlier in history while saying how a darker skin complexion is associated with evil and children learn early on that a lighter skin shade is more preferable and superior in society. Concluding from this article is that the idea of racial bias can be imprinted into an individual’s thought process at an early age. Many of the causes of racial
Two cognitive factors include victim blaming and conformation bias. Two social factors include; Cognitive factors Victim blaming. This refers to a situation where a crime occurs and the media and/or society portray invalid evidence to blame to the victim of a wrongful act and to say they have “inflicted harm on themselves”. According to Amel Ahmed, a writer for Aljazeera America, young Michael Brown was shot by police for stealing a box of cigars from a supermarket. Many people were shocked and horrified by police misuse of their weapon in this situation. Unfortunately, a few individuals used phrases such as “he deserved it” for defending the police officers behavior. This is an example of Victim blaming in today’s society. Michael Brown’s death is unjustified and an individual attempted to accuse Michael of false evidence such as, saying he was looking at the camera in the store and was making gestures similar to gang signs. Victim- blamers often use small or irrelevant evidence such as this to manipulate the situation into justifying what the criminals (Police) have