Hey there.
Shankar here.
The hidden brain team has been transfixed by the nationwide protests in recent weeks.
The enormous number of demonstrators may be new, but the biases they're protesting are not.
In 2017, we produced an episode on a little known form of racial bias.
We decided to return to that episode now, as many people are pushing for reforms in the criminal justice system.
Please note that the episode includes the sounds of shootings from a college campus, as well as music with violent and explicit language.
Here's the episode.
On a chilly April morning in 2007, a nightmare unfolded on a college campus in Virginia.
A 23 year old student, acting alone, opened fire in a dormitory.
He shot and killed two students.
Then he walked across campus and began killing people in an engineering building.
The sound of gunfire was caught on a student's cell phone.
We weren't sure what it was.
It was gunshots.
But for a while, we thought it might have been construction.
We heard this horrible scream and laughter.
Tina Harrison was a student in the building.
So we were sitting in the classroom, and basically, panic broke out.
All we could hear was people screaming, laughter, and more screaming.