Jefferson accepted common racial stereotypes of African Americans and did nothing to advance citizenship to free blacks or relieve the plight of slaves during the American Revolution.
Negative self-evaluations and accepting negative cultural stereotypes as true (internalized racism) can harm cardiovascular health.
Glibly accepting assumptions and stereotypes creates another class of victims - of racial discrimination.
"Young people accept and repeat these statements and stereotypes."
How viewers come to accept stereotypes as reality has to do with how blacks have traditionally been depicted.
For example, Seeds of Peace was founded in 1993 with the goal of creating new generations of leaders in conflict regions that will no longer accept outdated and harmful stereotypes about each other.
A small but growing group of white students are ready to accept and endorse racial stereotypes, he said.
Our goal is to defend feminism by continuing to challenge the unfair exclusion of women without accepting simplistic stereotypes or ideological policies.
Because of this, the book (together with images in the book and related stage productions) helped make a great number of people accept such stereotypes.
The goal of his organization was to create new generations of leaders in conflict regions that will no longer accept outdated and harmful stereotypes about each other.