Kristof Nicholas Article Summary

In Kristof Nicholas Article, he claims that everyone is a little bit racist. He has excellent point to as how people are. A few of these points are that, universities are more likely to choose “whiter” sounding names compared to african american sounding names. He also states that in a game designed by harvard, were you shoot people, people were more likely to shoot african americans than white people. Nicholas Makes many more points on how people are racist, even if it's towards themselves. First, let's start with how african americans are treated less equal than other types of people. Kristof Nicholas proves this by describing a test that was completed by to scholars, these scholars sent out nearly 5,000 resumes in response to help-wanted ads. They alternated between African American sounding names and stereotypical white sounding names. They found that it took 50 percent more mailings to get a call back for an african american sounding name.
Crime is everywhere, but the only stories that seem to make headlines is when a white cop shoots a African american. Joshua Correll of the University of Colorado at Boulder created a online shooting game. In this game you take the role of a police officer, you are confronted with a series of images. These images consist of white and Black people holding guns, or a wallets or cell phone. You objective is to shoot those holding the gun and holster when they have an other object. Ordinary players, who were typically college students, were more quick as to shoot the black person as to the white person. They would also take a smaller amount of time to shoot white people who had guns compared to the black people who had a gun. This study should that people were more quick to shoot at a black target than a white. Surprisingly this was the case for the Black people as well. This shows that in society most people would associate black people as more dangerous, which in most cases is