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To End Racism, People Need to Feel the Hope

December 6, 2010

Interesting article about the psychological side of efforts to end racism: Motivation to end racism relies on ‘yes we can’ approach.

If you’re trying to end racism, it’s not enough to get people to understand that racism is still a problem. You also have to make them feel like they can do something about it, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Personally, I think biology and love are going to overcome this obstacle faster than “awareness training” will. How can you be racist when almost everyone is mixed?