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Students in Angle 'Asian' gaffe told not to record video - My News 4 - KRNV, Reno, NV The high school's Hispanic Student Union advisor Isaac Barron says her comments made everyone in the room very uncomfortable. "I felt my jaw drop," Barron recalled. "I saw Mr. Angle. He was kinda visibly upset when she said that. The more she spoke, the worse it got. She was on a slippery slope, I think." Myra Monts de Oca, a member of the Hispanic Student Union, says both Hispanic and Asian students at the school feel insulted. "I thought that was kinda ridiculous, because it's already in the name. It couldn't be more obvious what we were. I don't know what was going through her mind. Maybe she meant something else but her point wasn't made." Angle's campaign insists Angle was referring to an instance where a reporter mistakenly referred to her as Asian and that she was trying to make a point about judging on appearance and stereotypes. KS...

News Analysis - Angle Video Reopens Topic of Race - NYTimes.com Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a professor of sociology at Duke, said the ad and Ms. Angle’s comments about it reflected the country’s new “racial terrain.” “I think the new boogeyman is Latino,” Professor Bonilla-Silva said. Still, Ms. Angle “managed to offend two communities at once: Asians and Latinos,” he said. “Her statements come across as patronizing, and hark back to an old racist tradition where we all look the same.”

You might be a racist if ... | SciGuy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle The huge IAT database contains troubling findings that have been highly publicized. For example, more than three-quarters of white and Asian test takers in the United States display an unconscious tendency to value white people over black people. Roughly half of black test takers show a pro-white bias as well. Many people who complete the IAT exhibit implicit inclinations for young versus old people and unconsciously favor men over women.