Bias prevention must be proactive to be effective

Bias prevention must be proactive to be effective

A task force created to confront bias cannot do so in silence. I am deeply troubled by reports in RiverheadLOCAL that members of the Riverhead Town Anti-Bias Task Force were instructed to remain silent on the very issues they were created to address, and that its mandate was narrowed from proactive education and outreach down to a purely reactive role. The work of bias prevention must be… Source