Kpfa - Talk-it-out Radio

Host Nancy Kahn talks with guest Jair Valley, a dynamic 21-year-old African American artist and full-time professional​. Jair talks about ​a​ recent experience of implicit racial bias in his workplace and the process he is actively engaged in to reclaim his dearly held values for wholeness and compassion. Starbucks recently shared materials with the public on the nationwide training they provided to all employees and defined Implicit Bias as the automatic association of stereotypes or attitudes with particular social groups, and they referenced the source Banaji & Greenwald, 2013. Patricia Devine, a psychology professor and director of the Prejudice Lab said, “ There are a lot of people who are very sincere in their renunciation of prejudice, yet they are vulnerable to habits of mind. Intentions aren’t good enough.”  (Nordell, “Is This How Discrimination Ends”, atlanticmonthly.com)​. A sample of Jair’s art: his self-portrait This show ​offers insights and practices into how to recover from the impact of r