Jessical Nordell
Kelly sits down with science writer Jessica Nordell to talk about her new book "The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias."
“I mean, one of the experiences that I had, while working on this book was screwing up in a public way and having to work through all of the uncomfortable feelings that come with screwing up. And, ultimately, sort of syncing into the fact that that is where growth happens; that is actually where change happens; and instead of running away from it, if we can sit with it, If we can tolerate that discomfort, then the world can start to open to us.”
“If my value is to treat you with respect and to treat you as an individual, and to treat you as someone who is equal to me, and then my unexamined biases are interfering with that, and causing me to treat you with disrespect, and treat you as less than me, or make assumptions about your competence or your ability, that's where that's where the problem is.”
“The government was very worried that racism was getting in the way of the war effort. There was a riot in Detroit against black factory workers living near white factory workers that were making war equipment. And so, the government started getting really worried that racism was going to interfere with our ability to succeed in World War II. And so, they actually commissioned opinion surveys about racial discrimination and those were some of the very early collections of data about racial attitudes in the United States.”