Implicit Racism

Today in class, we saw a student take a quiz on if there's a predisposed preference between African Americans and European Americans. So, when I got home I took a similar test based on light and dark colored skin people. After taking the test it said I had no preference towards light/dark skinned people. Which I thought was surprising, because it is inevitable that everyone have racism. We even see it in magazines everyday. Also, today we watched a clip about an experiment being reconducted based on what color doll little girls and boys prefer to play with. The majority of them decided to play with the white doll. What was really sad to watch was that the experimenter asked a little African American girl who she considered the mean doll-- and the girl preceded to pick the black doll. But, then the experimenter asked what doll resembled the girl the most- and the little girl at first hesitated, then proceeded to pick the black doll, not wanting to be known as the mean person, but the nice one- which happened to be the white doll. Overall, I feel that racism will always be surrounding us.