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First a thought on the visualization exercise: being able to quickly visualize a generic individual for a given phrase suggests bias (why'd you assign those traits?). But, I'm hesitant to say the same about visualizing a specific individual. Sure, bias likely plays a role in all my interactions, but the simple fact that I consider X person "annoying," and think of them when so prompted doesn't seem to suggest bias. (The fact that I unconsciously assume that anyone who reminds me of X is also annoying shows one way that bias forms, but that idea didn't really come across in the intro video) IAT I've taken many IAT tests over the years, and my general observation is that if I stumble, I tend to take a while to recover my flow. As a result, I occasionally get "strong preference" results that I ascribe mostly to chance. Today, for example, I got a "Strong preference for light-skinned" and a "moderate preference for African Americans" I found the "Native IAT" odd. I didn't start with any association between the pictures and their concepts, so I was pretty slow and not very accurate in the first few rounds, but got progressively better. It didn't so much feel that I was making Foreign vs American associations so much as learning an arbitrary categorization. I'd prefer it just have the locations (so I could read them better). But, I only got a "slight preference"... Similarly some parts of the "Asian IAT" - there were a couple locations that I had switched, and some faces I had difficulty categorizing. I ended up with a moderate Asian=American preference. Overall, I don't feel like I learned anything about myself (especially not by trusting the results), but I answered all the survey questions, so hopefully my data will be useful in some small way

So many of the social constructs and types of racism discussed in the videos are implicit in North American culture. As a white person, I have been complacent and complicit at times even as I work to be anti-racist. Working through homework with my middle schooler it dawned on me the internalization that Americans are white, and all others are Ethnicity-White. Pausing to have this discussion with her, giving her words to consider in how to discuss with her teacher. In a school that is still just over half white, it is a needed topic. These constructs are embedded in our culture, our systems, and perceptions of success. I consider how no one alive built the systems that are inherently racist; however, we benefit from them, and in some cases people are perpetuating them. For example, the Ivy League admission is an example of classism and belief that whites are being disadvantaged.

The discussion of eugenics being at the forefront to racist beliefs and subsequent policies is still relevant today. Whether it's doctors who treat and prescribe (pain) meds selectively as in the video, or more recently performing non consenting hysterectomies in detainees, and especially apparent in the comments of the President who just 2 days ago said the following to a largely white audience attending a rally: "You have good genes, you know that, right?" "You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn't it, don't you believe? The racehorse theory. You think we're so different? You have good genes in Minnesota." Trump has spoken of the racehorse theory and of his supposed genetic superiority in the past. The ideas he promotes (associating non white immigrants as criminals, rapists, or coming from shit-hole countries, etc etc) are most often rooted in his feelings of the white race as superior, and thus more deserving and entitled to live here in the US. That he has a loyal and emboldened following is a very scary indicator of how deeply embedded white supremacy and the idea of being superior (Eugenics) still is.