Writing Assignment #2 A. When I first heard about the race test in class, I was excited about it, because race issues is very relevant in our country today, so I thought this test would show how we as individuals feel about other people, just based on their race. This is how I felt about the race test before I completed the test, and this is how I felt after I completed the test. It didn’t matter what the results were, I was and still is very interested in what my true feelings are about racial groups, in this case African American vs European American, and since I’m an African American woman, who is surrounded a lot by European Americans, I knew it would be important to see if I felt a stronger preference for either racial group. While I was taking the test, it made me think of my prior racial bias against my own racial group, African Americans, and how I once ignorantly thought that African Americans were beneath European Americans. However when my …show more content…
I think this test did a good job of depicting the implicit association and unconscious prejudice with racial groups, in particular African Americans and European Americans. As far as the legitimacy of this test, I think the race test did as good as it can, I mean no test is 100% accurate, because some people may not follow the rules, or they will lie about their answer to get a certain score. However, for the most part I think the race test, showed that even though some people may not have any hatred for any racial groups, but they can still think racists’ phrases and ideas, use that problematic thinking to generalize an entire race, just based on the actions of certain people in that racial group. With that in mind, I think this test did a great job and was accurate in its mission, to show that race issues is still depicted today, and instead of ignoring race and downgrading racial issues, we need to talk about and be uncomfortable to make change and be better people to each other, no matter the