Implicit Bias -- how it effects us and how we push through | Melanie Funchess | TEDxFlourCity
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2014
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Everyone makes assumptions about people they don’t know. Melanie will teach us to recognize these assumptions and work toward a common understanding.
Ms. Melanie Funchess is currently employed by the Mental Health Association where she serves as the Director of Community Engagement. She is also involved in several community based coalitions and organizations such as the African American Leadership Development Program, African American Health Coalition, Black Women’s Leadership Forum, Greater Rochester Parent Leadership Training Institute, the Mental Health Promotion Task Force, and the Neighborhood Consortium for Youth Justice. She is a founding member of the Coalition for the Beloved Community. The Coalition’s mission is to serve as a “countywide movement to build a culture of peace; grounded in dignity and fed by hope”.
She is a devoted wife and mother of four children (two boys and two girls) three of whom experience mental/ emotional challenges. Her mission is to use her knowledge of systems and communities to create opportunities for youth and families to be empowered and successful and to break down the walls that separate us and build bridges to unite us as one community where every child is our own, we have front porch neighborhoods, and we use language that respects everyone.
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That's My Mom 😏🙆👏👏
really? congratulations then she's awesome
really? congratulations then she's awesome
Your mom is wonderful; an inspiration 👍🏾
Your mother has touched my heart. It must have been so amazing to be raised by such an insightful and beautiful soul.
Hey Madeline, your mom rocks.
My nephew's 5th grade teacher told him he could not become a doctor. He now holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics. Graduated with honors.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 congratulations!!!
That doesn't prove racism, just a stereotype opinion
awesome
Did they say he couldn't be a doctor because of his race, or did the teacher give another reason?
Wow! I am glad he proved them wrong.
“The next time you look at yourself, see ME.” -Melanie Funchess - - Now THAT’s the statement of the CENTURY! And what I’ve been preach in’ & teach in’ ALL of my career! Thank you and Asante Sana!
That was so powerful! I loved that! Thank you Melanie for the beautiful talk!
"SEE ME!" Chills and tears!
I am speechless. I felt like she was talking to ME. One of the best TED talks I've ever heard. I can't stop crying.
Amazing speaker. Thank you for speaking out about these issues.
The medical bias story is really powerful. I truly had no idea that racial bias existed in medicine, much less to that degree. Wow.
Unfortunately, it is true. I lived it. I had a doctor assumed that I was exaggerating my pain because I wanted drugs. It took 3 years & a doctor in a different state to diagnose my nerve condition & to medicate me properly (no pain medication needed. It was a nerve condition.) If I had listened to the first doctor, I would have ended up on permanent disability (if it was approved) & I would be living with excruciating pain today. Instead, my nerve condition is in remission, I graduated from college & I have a career that I'm extremely proud of. The doctor with the implicit biases did me a favor. He didn't give me pain medication in order to shut me up. I am not dealing with an opioid addiction because of his bias.
Unfortunately it exists. It's been documented in medical journals such as the The New England Journal of Medicine. Racism in medicine may affect men more than women. My friend Alicia Cole became a patient-safety advocate after almost dying from hospital-acquired necrotising fasciitis (man eating flesh bacteria); SEPSIS; pseudomonas; vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE); and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The pharmacy wouldn't let her brother pick up morphine for her - assuming he was a drug addict, until they received a call from her doctors. President Obama appointed her patient safety advocate to the CDC.
@@estherhyun5716 Wow, just wow. How do these acts keep occurring? In America of all places?? How can we change things for the better?
@@cmimi9206 it starts with looking at each other as individuals and not by race, where we live or financial status.
If you wish to know the extent of it, read Medical Apartheid by Harriet A Washington.
Bias as a whole as well as believing a lie can cause a lot of problems. I am experiencing this more now every day. I even just experienced it with a like-minded soul. But even if they don't trust me that is fine they showed me their true colors and I am now going to prove to them they are not worth my time.
Also congrats to this woman's daughter I hope she gets that goal it's going to be a really hard road and she will be facing a lot of rejection. So it's great she has such a supportive momma.
I love the word Ubuntu! Also, I was born blind, so even though I can’t see what people look like with my eyes, that’s OK with me, because that means I’ll get to learn about people by listening to them share stories about their cultures and experiences and hearing their inner character. To me, everyone is beautiful!
I love those sentiments! 💜
@@ellanina801 thank you so much!
Brilliant. Wholehearted. Timeless message. Ubuntu! Thank you.
I love her passion.
In the fall of 2007, I started at Junior College. My first meeting with the academic counselor went terribly. The counselor, before checking my high school transcripts, looked at me and said I wouldn't do well in the Veterinary Technology program because I am hispanic and hispanics drop out of school. In 2013, I graduated with my Associates of Science in Veterinary Technology, in 2017 I graduated with my Bachelors degree with distinction in Collaborative Health and Human Services and now fall 2020 started a Masters of Social Work program. Fighting implicit bias all the way baby! This hispanic is going places!
🥳🥳🥳 I’m proud of you
Next Ph.D!!!
You Go Girl!!!! Rooting for you all the way!!!!!!!
Racism is thought oh how this makes my heart hurt and my eyes fill with tears. I will continue to stand for justice for all and treat others the way I what them to treat me, with love and respect.
I have a physical disability. Although I am privileged in other ways, this message was wonderful. I have been struggling personally lately, grinding through graduate school. This was exactly what I needed to hear!
A beautiful soul with great insight. Thanks, Melanie!!
I am an articulate, proud, grateful, beautiful woman. I must be because I am you and you are me. TY
Melanie, I am with you. In regards to your daughter, my daughter would like to take Nursing and her counselor told my daughter that she has to a think of different field to take. Now, my daughter is very confused and lost all her self-confidence. We have to skip a year this year since after that conversation with the counselor she lost her interest.
She holds and delivers incredibly important message we all must hear and act on. If someone who is top of the class at speaking helps her nail the delivery she will be unstoppable and on the way to change the world. Beautiful!
an eye opening beautiful speech!!! I think school children would greatly befefit from her intelligence.
Beloved QUEEN, I appreciate your courageousness.. I experience this everyday. Awareness is the thing that under the deception of paranoia most people of AfriKAN decent suppress their experiences. I believe it to be learned helplessness coupled with the drive to actualize self efficacy.
Yes there is hope and it does call for an, “all hands on deck”, approach.
I honor you and you determination.
absolutely loved this talk! wonderful speaker, very well prepared and had excellent stories and examples to illustrate her point on such an important topic.
First of all you're a wonderful speaker!! I remember as a single mother, trying to talk to a guidance counselor about going back to night school, how awful, and ashamed he made me feel, telling me it was impossible, and I should wait till my child was older. Your video spoke to me, THANK YOU!! I've thought a lot about how to get people to do better, think better, treat each other better, you hit it STRAIGHT ON!! I'm SO impressed!!! BRAVO!!
Its interesting that a presentation about mitigating bias is not captioned for deaf people.
This was so powerful, thank you
I am grateful for your TED talk!
I just came across this TEDx Talks. Thank you so much for sharing and teaching
This is Gold. Thank you!!!
Wonderful talk! The counselor story hit a nerve with me as I remember my very first piano lesson where my teacher hit me on the knuckles and told me I wasn’t hitting the keys correctly (duh, it’s my first lesson) and stopped my piano-playing aspirations dead in its tracks, which until now I regret. It’s unfortunate these types of encounters forever change the trajectories of many aspiring kids. Sad.
My high school counselor story is very similar to her daughter's story. I was an honor student and wanted to take multiple math courses. My goal was to be an accountant. My counselor denied my requested schedule and put me in a home economics course because she said it was more important for a girl to know how to cook and sew.
That stinks Heidi…I hope you showed them!
Let me just hope that you didn't follow his plan
Have you ever considered that home economics course was preparation for attaining the path to be an accountant? Do you know that some accountant courses can be super expensive and you can be set up for failure by enrolling in a course that you may discover you really don't like and stuck with double digit student loan debt?
Home economics classes teach you skills essential for caring and managing a home. If you don't have that taught to by your parents, this gives you the tools you need to have cleanliness, pride in both the work you do & at home, be independent, successful, and develop management skills.
I know many girls who don't know how to cook or even do simple sewing repairs to save money. Instead, they skate by life by spending money on take out when it should have been invested in development for themselves. The counselor was simply acting on your best interests on realistic lenses not with rose colored glasses. How can you be a success if you lack the simple skills needed to learn at home? Counselors are not going to jeopardize their job by going against their code of ethics by giving you words you want to hear. This counselor was giving you the truth and many like you unfortunately can handle the truth.
Fabulous and heart wrenching presentation and her style and energy makes for a great package. Thank you!
This was very enlightening! Awesome! I viewed this as part of a class discussion, but I will share this information with others. So powerful. We can achieve our dreams.
Absolutely Awesome! Melanie Funchess, you are a beautiful Queen! Well spoken; or should I say well preached, Sis! The Lord bless you for your forthrightness! I pray our Brothers & Sisters by another Mother listen! I watched this the day after Martin Luther King Day. I'm still celebrating by opening my eyes to how little things have changed & working to combat issues in my corner of the world.
I just started listening to this women and so far I like what I m hearing and i agree 100% about what's she saying.
Can't judge a book by it's cover.
@woof beast My, my, you have a lot of explicit bias!
That math story was heartbreaking! We need to lift each other up.
Could listen to this beautiful soul for hours
Go Melanie!
Awesome, wise and inspiring.
thank you for sharing this!!!
Ive experienced this. When I was 25 I went to the doctor for my annual physical. The doctor was young. We went over my history she told me about what she was going to do. I told her to make sure my iron levels are checked based on my history of severe anemia. She told me she had to speak with the head doctor. I was confused but waited patiently for her to come back to the room after speaking with the head doctor. She returned and said the head doctor said there's no need... she then said "but checking you for HIV is more important" ....
Goddam. That sucks. I'm so sorry.
Unbelievable! Keep speaking up!! 😉
Loved every bit of it. I took notes.
amazing!
Melanie, you are amazing!!!!
I watched this video for the social equity portion of my yoga teacher training and I'm so glad. Amazing speaker with actionable next steps.
Powerfully important message...TAKE HEED PEOPLE...
WOWWWWWW! This was SOOOO POWERFUL!!! I am sharing this EVERYWHERE!!!
I have been curious about why African American's have been treated differently since I was a child. When I saw it I would call it out and ask Why?, My question iOS, how to we get women of all races to come together on a grass roots level to start tough, needed conversations. I agree with Melanie that it is good to feel uncomfortable. Growth feels great but many fear it. I have found that most white women are not interested in these conversations because it is easier to ignore. I have found some that want to learn including myself. We could work together to make changes starting with small groups that are facilitated. I am looking for some direction and suggestions from women.
Maybe start a youtube channel/ build social media platform (s) for open talks and discussions? There may be people out there just like yourself who also don't know where to begin and are just looking for a platform to join and uplift. I would say maybe it can start there. Also maybe the group of women that you spoke upon above can be the facilitators for the table talk club.
@Joe C Are you a white male feeling left out in this discussion? I"m a white female supporting a Nigerian lady through work. Do something special and stop trying to cause division, then come back and let us know.
@Joe C Lol I can;t see your pic. I apologise!
Why just women?
Why exclude men? That seems very sexist .. you are bigoted
God bless this woman!
❤❤❤ thankyou for this tedtalk it has given me a broader perspective on our society.
thank you Melanie for explaining implicit bias.
Great talk. It is for everyone to work on themselves. Daily would be best; it gets less tiresome over time, just like personal hygiene. You wouldn't skip that would you?
Can I mention again that there are no closed captioning? I would love to show this in my course but if I do it leaves out my Deaf students.
I was just thinking the same thing - I want to post, but it isn't accessible to my Deaf friends.
Kattrillion if you go directly to the Tedtalks website, they definitely have the closed captioning on there.
@@cassandranolan2483 Thank you. I just went to the site, and I can't find this talk there. I found some other great talks, so thank you for pointing me in that direction though.
copy the transcript and print it off on paper
@@MrBrindleStyle if you have Deaf people in a class how do they read the transcript paper and watch the talk at the same time? It doesn't work.
However this talk does not appear on the site at all.
I really enjoyed this message. As a RDH and LMT we arw now required to view Implicit Bias course for renewal requirement. I'm so glad I came along this one. MS. Finches has summed it up perfectly( at least for me) I can definitely relate and I will be sharing this with my co workers and friends. Umbutu( forgive the spelling) and peace.
Namasté, better TED Talk because she brought Self Respect 🍂🙏🏽🌹🌹
My career was in an AT&T division. Starting in 1970 one of the historic corporate efforts to address discrimination against people of color and women.
It was very successful and I guess when I retired in year 2000 I had the idea all large businesses had managed to catch up to us.
As I worked at a couple of other businesses I became more and more grateful for my experience at AT&T.
Excellent!!
Brillient!
It is REAL IN THE FIELD, OF WORK!
All teachers, principals, guidance counselors, doctors, nurses watching, I hope this makes you think before you speak, especially at work where you're looked up to. Never ever tell Any child they can't, no matter what it is. Never medically analyze a patient half way especially if that person is suffering and especially if your mental reasoning involves ethnicity in any way. Everyone is capable and everyone is the same species. We are all humans, who can do things, and All humans deserve the same medical care. When you sign up to be an educator or person to give guidance you choose the job so you can advance the next generation, dont half do that job. When you sign up to care for people's health, ease pain and help give the average life expectancy the best you can with your education, dont half do that job.
Excellent speech!
Beautiful food for thought I will actively work to be more mindful and engage more in my community. Meaning all of us are together in this and we all must understand and help one another. I was always taught that we should love and respect one another no matter the race, creed, or color. Race meaning species i.e. animals, nature we all are interdependent on one another. A second add on to this is I believe for people that there is only one race, the human race. We need to stop acting like we are separate, we are all made of the same genome. Creed meaning wether your a CEO, a restaurant worker, disabled, the president or currently seeking work (whatever circumstances) you have value and are a part of my universe. Color, the universe is made of many colors and would be bland without them. Color is just how we see and interpret light bouncing off of surfaces in our mind. Now we need to see that in our mind just because light shows us a different shade doesn’t mean we need to interpret it as a threat or less than or one of the preconditioned mind sets we were raised with. Sorry for the long comment but I really just connected with everything that was said in this.
This is very true, transformational activism.
Awesome !
Hey, can you guys make sure to put on closed captions, even auto generated. It would be extremely helpful. Thanks
same story here in Paris, KY (guidance counselor)
Yes, it happen to me, I was told in 10th grade deposit getting between 96-100% on all of my Biology Test, I was not Nursing Material. I needed a job in Retail and my Biology Teacher went out of his way to get me into Distributive Education. However God was in the Master Plan!
I am currently a RN Entrepreneur, having mastered Business and Nursing!
Side Note; I took gave of this Teacher in CVICU at Milwaukee County General Hospital in 1994!I
Amazing!
Thank you!
This TED talk was incredible
I love Fairy Stories . My favourite is H C Anderson " The
Emperor's New Clothes " . Seems to become more relevant
with every passing yesr..
Thank you so much for providing this talk on implicit bias. Most people truly do not understand that implicit bias affects everyone at some point.
We all have implicit bias, but there is no need to make people force themselves to change that. It is natural. I do not find most black women attractive, and it is my right to feel that way. Would I ever disrespect a black woman's human rights or treat her any less than any other person? No.
I stated that "Most people truly do not understand that implicit bias affects everyone at some point. " What people need to do is stop making laws base on their implicit biases.
@@fredrick8814 what laws are put in place over this implicit bias
I appreciated the new word that depicts wholeness of the human family. likewise KrishnaMurti advocated the idea of unity, "I am the world and the world is me."
You go, Sis! That was very powerful.
Implicit bias kills.
OMG I HAVE KNOWN WHAT THIS MY WHOLE LIFE BUT NEVER HAF THE WORDS!!!! SHE HAS MY WORDS!!!!!!
Something may never change
SO AMAZING
WAW VERY AMAZING!
MAS BUBU KA
VERY GRAPE🍇
@@ralphdanielderona4667 MAMATAY KANANG WALANG KWENTA KA
Amazing
This same thing happened to me my 9th grade teacher crushed my soul when she told me I couldn't be what I wanted to be. Smh people are something else
it wasnt her fault it was yours , you were weak back then , your dream wasnt strong enough if a 9th grade teacher could " crush " it , at 9th grade i couldnt care less what my teachers thought about me XD if you really wanted it you could have try it , are you telling me that because of this teacher you didnt follow your dream ?? is this teacher the goverment or something? im sorry i just dont understand americans i really dont
Fantastic speech. I hope I get to see the day when it's more normal ask questions and take time to learn people and cultures and diversities than acting like ppl are "normal" and can be batch handled and we stop pretending that social quality requires time and space and .... you know ... all the stuff currently disregarded due to misogyny. (Unpaid) emotional labor!
I wanna see the day where people are truly blind to differences but fully attentive to diversities!
Implicit Bias is a huge problem in the work place.
Guidance Counselors are useless and the crush dreams of EVERY student they "guide." Mine broke me and tried to keep me from graduating high school.
Beautiful. I had a dream to go to Harvard to become a lawyer but was told, you have to be smart and rich. It discouraged me. What was the person trying to say? Now I am in Social Work and will be graduating this year 2020.
That's wonderful for you!
Thank you. The open minded side of society loves people like you.
That sounded...odd.
How so?
Michelle Obama (then Robinson) had exactly the same experience with a guidance counsellor when she wanted to go to Princeton. She was devastated. She had to get a recommendation from another teacher who knew her family and believed in her.
I hear you
My guidance councilor did the same thing
I just had an altercation with a Caucasian lady shop keeper, greeted her gently and got nothing but a hand asking for payment. I then said ' I just greeted you" she said " I didn't hear you, why are you people so sensitive" I asked for money back and she threw it back to me while cursing, I walked out. not knowing how to unplug from the situation I searched for diversity as I am working on this subject in my module. and I feel better after this... umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu
Nosipho Smollett
She's great! Thanks.
This was beautiful. So here's my question, for anyone really. How do you differentiate between doing something as precaution/protection and doing something because you're biased? Example: You're driving through the ghetto/a neighbouthood that looks like it's poor, and you wind up all your windows that were down when you were in town or in your middle class neighbourhood. Did you wind up the windows because you wanted to be cautious in case someone robs you or worse, shoots you, or are you biased? I counter this thinking with my own thinking: If it was a poor, white neighbourhood, what about you do, keep the windows down, or wind them up?
Growing up with RACISM, EVEN FROM YOUR OWN PEOPLE NEEDS NEEDS WORK
Yes that happened to my child in 2014!
College experience is my story as well.
my people were from Rochester for a while, my poppy worked for Hickok leather as a traveling saleman. I had to look up on my other computer the Flour City reference
I am white and appalled by my own implicit bias. THANKYOU. I am doing the work. I AM WOKE!
lol good one
One of the best TED talks I've listened to.
'How it *affects* us...' To *effect* us, if anything, would be something different.
Melanie I look at you and I see my sister. I think deliberate awareness of biasness can attract it. Some dogs still chase old cars that makes squeaky noises that the unaided human ear cannot hear. What i'm saying is, the dogs are not chasing every car but only the cars that makes an irritating noise. (tinkling cymbal) Fish don't bite every bait. When I look at the man in the mirror now I will think of Melanie Funchess and Michael Jackson.
It's. unfortunate. there is still no closed captions after all the requests and all this time passed...
"Use your privilege to create equity". That is something to aspire to! Thank you, Melanie!
I’m Mexican and this happens to me all the time
I will watch Cicely Tyson, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter.