How do we overcome preconceptions and anxiety about race? "Part of understanding racial anxiety is simply naming it," says Alexis McGill Johnson, executive director of the American Values Institute.
Once you identify your own racial preconceptions, Johnson says, "you can give yourself different guidance in how you want to treat the conversation, by recognizing that no one is in this conversation to call you racist. We're just in this conversation to have a better dialogue."
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Camera, sound and editing: Lauren Frohne
Second camera: Chuck Leung
Graphics: JK Keller
Music: "Light Thought var 4" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
