Am i Racist

I'm glad to say I'm not racist!... said by the Implicit Association Test. After a series of questions and tests my result was, "you have no automatic prefference between African Americans and White Americans." The test is very confusing, but i can see how it works and how its affective. The test matches good and bad with different ethnicities, and you must put the right word or picture in the right spot. The test records how many you get right and when you get it wrong, it looks at why you might have gotten in wrong. Lets say you match up bad words with African Americans when its supposed to be bad words in a different category, the test would take that information and would say that this person identifies African Americans with these bad words.  During the test i was getting frustrated because it was making me feel like i was supposed to be racist, for example when bad words and African Americans were on one side, i was affiliating the two with each other because i had to.
I think that my results from the test are because of how i was raised in my family and in Deerfield. The website, tolerance.org, said that, "Social scientists believe children begin to acquire prejudices and stereotypes as toddlers. Many studies have shown that as early as age 3, children pick up terms of racial prejudice without really understanding their significance." If this is true, then it would be almost impossible to stop prejudice and racism in this nation alone. If we as a nation want to seriously try to put a stop the racism then we need to make many small steps, such as working together in communities to fix the problem.