"I walked out of a department store one time and the alarms went off, and so they came running to me. But I walked through the gate at the same time a white male walked through the gate. And that guy just walked off with stolen goods, knowing that they would stop me and not him."
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, on race, gender, stereotypes and deeply ingrained societal biases: “I’ve never been female, but I have been black my whole life.” (via odinsblog)
(via cognitivedissonance)
