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Bias By Us How Not Knowing That We Don’t Know Causes Known Harm [1]
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Date: 2025-05-09
Pedro Senhorinha Silva, a black writer/author, discusses a bias that occurs not only among American and foreign-born blacks but also within the country itself.
Bias By Us
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Pedro Senhorinha Silva recounts how his Cape Verdean heritage, Black identity, and Portuguese name made him an outsider in the U.S. South, revealing how racial, ethnic, and national labels intertwine to maintain white‑supremacist hierarchies and sow division within the African diaspora.
Silva describes being taunted with “Go back to Mexico,” illustrating how ignorance weaponizes xenophobia against anyone who fails to fit rigid racial boxes.
He explains how white institutions often elevate immigrant Blacks over African Americans to fracture potential multiracial, working‑class solidarity.
Neuroscience insights show bias originates in the amygdala’s survival reflex and can be rewired only through sustained cross‑cultural exposure and critical self‑reflection.
Personal anecdotes—from school forms offering only “Black” or “White” to strategic pranks that expose double standards—demonstrate how racist norms police public space.
Both host and guest emphasize that dismantling bias is a prerequisite to confronting larger structural injustices, urging readers to seek curiosity over fear.
From a progressive vantage, the dialogue underscores that liberation depends on rejecting any “get‑out‑of‑Blackness‑free card,” building solidarity across the diaspora, and pairing individual empathy with systemic reform so that shared humanity outweighs the narrow privileges white supremacy doles out to keep workers divided.
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