What Everyone Can Do to Promote Racial Equity
- Control your behavior and seek out repetitive contact with or substantive exposure to out-group members.
- Be mindful of societal-level power differences without perpetuating them yourself.
- Be respectful.
- Leaders should devote considerable effort and attention to creating the right conditions for optimal intergroup contact.
- Practice simple empathetic mental exercises like putting yourself in someone else's shoes and thinking about what life is from their perspective.
- People must be given the chance or opportunity to do better.
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