In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation was

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation was not a violation of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause because “separate” facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were “equal.” The “separate but equal” doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life, such as restaurants, theaters, restrooms, and public schools. In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education reversed the ruling in Plessy v. Feguson, and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren stated, “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” Then with the most sweeping piece of Civil Rights legislation, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal.
Today, we see that while these changes in law and legal precedent did create some change, much of it has been hallow. African American unemployment rates are double that of white Americans, and “about 73 percent of whites own homes, compared to just 43 percent of blacks. The gap between median household income for whites (about $91,000) compared to blacks (about $7,000) is staggering, and that gap has tripled in just the past 25 years. The median net worth of white families is about $265,000, while it was just $28,500 for blacks” These statistics point to institutional racism, or structural racism.
INSTRUCTIONS:
In this post, I would like you do do some reading on Institutional racism (I posted a few articles in the links below), and watch the videos I posted on implicit bias. Then, I’d like you to give me your informed opinion on how institutional racism and implicit bias impact each other. Is it institutional racism that creates implicit bias, or does our implicit bias that causes us to create racist structures. This discussion takes some research and thought.
LINKS TO USE:
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2015/05/06/institutional-racism-is-our-way-of-life
https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-systemic-racism-and-institutional-racism-131152
https://medium.com/national-equity-project/implicit-bias-structural-racism-6c52cf0f4a92
http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2010_08_19_rochester_mn.pdf
Implicit Bias: Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JVN2qWSJF4
We all have implicit biases. So what can we do about it? | Dushaw Hockett | TEDxMidAtlanticSalon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHSJHkPeLY