Even though as individuals we might work consciously to not be racist, we live in a racist society with a racist history. From the moment we are born we are influenced in an around about way to think of white as good and black as bad. Look at these examples from various media. They are not trying to be racist, but the message they send reinforces racist ideology.

These pictures though very similar, are different in two important areas: the race of the people and the caption.

LeBron James is one of the few men to be on the cover of Vogue and yet, he is portrayed as an angry gorilla.




Read this article that is full of implicit bias and then checkout this post showing that Jewish players were dominant in basketball in the first half of the 20th century.  And another example of implicit bias is how people react in a split second when they confront someone with a weapon.  See here for that.