How we tackle our bias is important.
Starbucks began to address this, you can find their work here:
https://starbuckschannel.com/thethirdplace/
https://dcl24jcpeau8t.cloudfront.net/media/channel/2018/05/30/sbux_team_guidebook-5_30.pdf
I found this article to be very enlightening:
How Mindfulness Can Defeat Racial Bias
An excerpt:
Research shows that mindfulness practices help us focus, give us greater control over our emotions, and increase our capacity to think clearly and act with purpose. Might mindfulness assist police and other public servants in minimizing the mistaken judgments that lead to such harms? Might they help the rest of us—professors and deliverymen alike—minimize our biases as well?
In a word, yes. The good news is that mindfulness and related practices do assist in increasing focus and raising awareness, and have been shown to assist in minimizing bias. While the research is ongoing, studies are beginning to show that mindfulness meditation and compassion practices serve as potent aids in the work of decreasing bias.
We are called as Christians to use such mindfulness & prayer to decrease our bias and to help us love one another as God has loved us.
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