At BloggingHeads.tv, Robert Wright and Baratunde Thurston discuss a question that Wright says he’s always wanted to ask a black person: “Is it easy to get over the fact that many people you encounter, their initial appraisal of you has to do with your blackness?”
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Thurston replied that, for large numbers of people, that reality is like an “extra process running in the CPU of your mind” — a burden that wastes mental resources that could be put to better use, absent the awareness of prejudice.
Watch the entire exchange at BloggingHeads.tv.
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