#012: In Part 3 of Race in America, I come up for some metaphorical air and switch gears to think about how the human mind works. I'm experiencing the rage, the anger, the disappointment and a slew of emotions that so many people are as well. But, I've also felt one of my special contributions to the fight would be to get under the hood a little - read between the lines and look towards the bigger picture from a healed perspective. Anger is such a useful tool, and it is important that it gets expressed. The question for me is how to I use that momentum, how to I convert all that energy into something actionable? How can I use my knowledge and understanding of human behavior to give people actionable steps for the tough conversations they're bound to have, hopefully, for the rest of their lives until we stamp out racism?
I'm doing that with the help of psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Two men that contributed so much to the field of psychology and behavior. Today's episode will cover a couple different heuristics and cognitive biases and attempt to provide a couple suggestions for how to push against their effects to be a more effective communicator to someone not on the side of racial equality and justice. This episode also features some recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. I'm using their voices as a way for you to connect with this fight the last time the fight was so explosive, but also to paint a picture. That picture is that even our greatest leaders had disagreement with how we would achieve our collective ends. Secretly, I'm also trying to prime you one way or another. You'll understand what that means if you listen all the way through.
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