Implicit Bias

We watched the 1st presidential debates this afternoon. This is the first time in all the debates that I have watched that I have heard any candidate talk about implicit bias. (However, I have not watched all of them, so someone else might have mentioned it but I missed it.) I think it is great that implicit bias is being brought up in the context of how to deal with racism. We can't correct what we don't know is happening; it is possible to change your implicit biases. Harvard University has a series of on-line implicit association tests that you can take to see what type of implicit biases you have, such as race, age, weight, skin tone, gender, and more.

Mom went in for her weekly blood test today. She is still surprised that she has to go in for a test every week, even though we have now been doing this for almost 3 months now. She says she won't have any blood if they keep doing this, we joked that this is why they have to fill her up every month!

Yay! Punu and Pebbles are back at the Hawaiian Humane Society! They were stolen last week. I was there the next day checking for Momo who is still missing and saw the end of the TV interview. When Mom saw the interview she was wondering how the HHS could "let" someone steal the dogs. The HHS is not planning on changing their policy of allowing people to spend time at their facility freely interacting with the dogs since that is the best way to know if the dog is a good match for the family and leads more people to adopt a dog.

Pebbles (Photo by Hawaiian Humane Society)

Punu (photo by Hawaiian Humane Society)

Happy Birthday to Mimi, Bill, & Yvonne!