Implicit Bias

This is the second time that I have taken the IAT. The first time I received the results that I had a slight preference towards African-Americans, and this time I got moderate preference towards African Americans. This is not as surprising to me because I have always preferred the look of African Americans, I never wanted the blond barbies as a child. My mom has always thought it may be "I want what I can't have", that since I am blonde and perpetually pale I am jealous of people who have dark hair and dark skin. I agree with her, to a point. I may have grown up in the suburbs of Chicago but I spent my summers in Charleston, SC and I was exposed to many more black people there than I was in Highland Park. I realize that this test doesn't really define who we are, many of our automatic reactions are incorrect and most definitely not what we truly believe. The environment that we grew up in is more familiar and automatically the one that we feel safer in, it isn't that all white people are racist, it is that they have seen mostly white faces their entire life.