Letters to the Editor
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Unsurprising, perhaps...
But not worthy of the dismissive snorting that characterizes the first page of comments. "Hell, anybody with a barnyard fulla chickens coulda told you that! Don't need no fancy-pants scientist to tell me that!" Maybe you didn't, but now you have evidence to back up your position. It's fun, I reccomend it--the whole evidence thing.
Anyway, anti-racist activists have been working from this assumption for years now. Trying to act like prejudice does not exist (not in MY brain!) is not only taxing on the brain, as the article points out, but it's also a powerful way to protect that prejudice. Hey, come to think of it, that explains a lot... hey, buddy, are you sure you're not racist? Maybe your brain's too taxed. Cognitive dissonance is exhausting.
It does raise the question, too--what now? I agree that it's time to stop reacting puritanically towards our own biology, and just dealing with us as we are. That's a good reccomendation all around. Maybe we could incorporate that idea into our education systems.
That would mean radical reform at the state and federal levels...
Hold on, gotta start a revolution.
Be right back.
--val