“The Hidden Brain”: Behind your secret racism

By THOMAS ROGERS - SALON
Added: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:50:29 UTC

The author of a new book talks about the brain's hidden impulses, and why you're more biased than you think

Of the many viral-video meltdowns pop culture has endured, few are as viscerally disturbing, as painful to watch, as Michael Richards’ racist rant during a 2006 stand-up appearance. As you’ll no doubt remember, the man better known as Kramer lashed out at a heckler in his audience with a shocking string of slurs, including the brutally memorable line, “Fifty years ago, we’d have you upside down with a fork up your ass.” The breakdown so outraged the general public that even today, if you Google “Michael Richards,” it auto-completes to “Michael Richards racist.”
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