When we think about or discuss issues of class, race, or gender equality, it is vital to try to find any implicit bias we may have. It's easy to try to personalize and exclude people by what we observe, but it's our own implicit bias versus the centuries of emotional oppression imposed by society.
Listening to people's experiences and respecting their perspectives is half of the way in fighting the social injustice prevelant across the world. Ignoring it only internalizes and amplifies emotions
It only promotes us v them mentalities on all sides of the fence. Ignoring it won't make it go away. Bias runs through generations and many of the words we say and choices we make are affected by it. We inherit it from our upbringers and it's important to expose it and teach our own offspring about bias. Time alone can't heal wounds or scars.
Defn: http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/research/understanding-implicit-bias/
Sauce: http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/florida-police-shootings/if-youre-black/
Test from Harvard: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html