UNCONSCIOUS RACISM.

Question: Although overt (obvious) racism is becoming increasingly rare in American society today, unconscious racism remains a very a realty. Examine the historical origins of this unconscious racism of which Rosenberg writes and postulate (assume) the realistic possibility of eradication of this unconscious racism.

In the 1960s, there were two drunk driving incidents that were almost identical in all aspects, aside from the race of the driver. One driver was white and the other was black, and the incidents were about a week apart. While the white driver received compassion from the judge and a not so stiff bail treatment, the black driver received the reaction of fear and was given a harsher bail. Civil rights attorney David Kairys pointed out to the court impermissible inequality in treatment, no matter what the intent. Therefore the judge happily corrected himself. In the following decade a new standard had come into