The program uses a combination of video, reading content, and interactive quizzes to help participants explore the historical, psychological, and institutional causes of implicit biases, along with how these long-standing structures directly affect the way people think and interact. Built into the training is the opportunity for each trainee to take the Harvard University Implicit Associations tests to learn of their own implicit biases. … [Read more...] about L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti Announces ‘Implicit Bias’ Training for All City Employees
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On a historic day, the American Experiment endures
In case you missed it The cost of Trump’s lies: “So here we are, a few days from a new president promising to restore truth, civility and the scientific way to American politics, amid the ruins of a vainglorious president who failed us as none before him. Stores are shuttered, schools are closed, hospitals and morgues are overwhelmed, families are stressed, stadiums are empty, 25,000 troops are lining the streets of Washington to protect us from a threat within, and young people are facing a future of climate calamity in no small part because of a serial liar of a president.” Read my column from Sunday 1/17 … [Read more...] about On a historic day, the American Experiment endures
David Limbaugh: Biden & Co. are driving the American freight train leftward at full throttle — we must resist
Their strategy is to keep the spotlight on Trump to continue to capitalize on the week from hell during which the D.C. riots occurred, milking from it every last ounce of negativity to discredit and neuter the MAGA movement. Meanwhile, Biden and his handlers are conducting the American freight train leftward at full throttle. … [Read more...] about David Limbaugh: Biden & Co. are driving the American freight train leftward at full throttle — we must resist
Georgia election wins give Biden a mandate — and mounting expectations
Instead, the leverage will shift to the left -- but only as far as Senate moderates, who make up most of the new majority, allow it to go. The odds that Democrats pass big ticket progressive legislation is only fractionally greater than it was on Monday, with future Majority Leader Chuck Schumer either needing a united conference, or the support of GOP defectors, to make it happen. Liberal gains will likely happen on the margins, but with Biden pushing for a massive Covid relief package out of the gate, those gains could have outsized consequences. … [Read more...] about Georgia election wins give Biden a mandate — and mounting expectations