This Tedx attempts to describe the science of racial bias from the first hand perspective of a white American male. Through a combination of personal confession, neuroscience, and the current racial climate in this country, Tim seeks to find a way for white people to talk about bias without falling into denial or overgeneralization. There are implications for the larger human species when it comes to how we see people who are different from us, but the focus is the immediate challenge that faces us in this country and it comes to issues of difference and color.

Dr. Tim Horner is a faculty member and assistant director of the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University. His professional work focuses on the psychological road to atrocity that focuses on the perpetrators of violence. He seeks to understand the way in which people and institutions seek to confine, conform, and condemn entire groups of people. He teaches courses on social justice, the Humanities, and atrocity, especially genocide.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx