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Hidden Brain Media

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🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Generations of Americans have struggled against segregation. Most of us believe in the ideal of a colorblind society. But what happens when that ideal come up against research that finds colorblindness sometimes leads to worse outcomes?

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:03.8	There is comfort in the familiar.
0:07.0	That's why Marlon Wade likes to head over to his local barber shop, Ristakshan.
0:11.2	I just stop in.
0:12.1	It's on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, California.
0:16.7	He doesn't come for a cut.
0:17.9	No here, no here. I just wear the ball here.
0:20.8	He comes to shoot the breeze.
0:24.5	He points to one of the barbers, who's a friend.
0:26.8	That's my son's. God, probably.
0:28.6	That's one of my old school teammates.
0:30.4	Basically, Marlon likes to hang with people who know and understand him.
0:35.2	People he grew up with.
0:40.8	Some years ago, when Marlon was in the market for a new doctor,
0:44.2	he looked for that same feeling of connection.
0:47.2	I had various choices. I had over 20 docks of detour.
0:50.8	But once stood out, she was like him, black,
0:55.4	and like him, a practicing Muslim.
0:58.2	She gets me, I get hurt.
0:59.8	We talk about life, we talk about our religion.
1:02.0	You know, if something wrong with me, she gonna let me know.
1:05.2	It's the kind of trusting relationship Marlon doesn't believe he'd find
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