article below for interest
"Secondly, this is about the level of prejudice that Malcolm Gladwell himself had and he is half Jamaican. Indeed, more that 50 per cent of black people also have an unconscious preference for white over black people. It’s the society we live in."
I've got a theory -- well - I suppose some would argue hypothesis - but, close enough -
that our colour bias is hard wired and very very logical - and, indeed - in all of us
I think it's all to do with the reflection of light on skin ----------- it's far far far far easier to read a face when it's a reflective light coloured skin face - than a black face - and ,if the black face is a matt skin - then, that is the most difficult of all
anyway - below is an article on Malcolm
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/why-malcolm-gladwell-thinks-im-a-racist
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