Can a pill 'cure racism'?

Yahoo! News/The Week ^ | March 9, 2012 | The Week's Editorial Staff

[JaguarXKE]

I’d rather see a pill that can cure liberalism.

[JimSEA]

I think there is an inherent ability for humans to identify differences, “us” versus “them”. This behavior was necessary with tribal or clans that were in conflict. Skin color is an obvious distinction but, having spent a fair amount of time in Asia, I can differentiate among Hmong, Japanese, Chinese, Khmer, Thai, Thai Yai, etc. We are attuned to recognize differences and suspect that different equals bad. Part of human nature.

[THE_RAIDER]

Good give it to Jesse, Al, Holder, Obama, the black caucus's...

[tacticalogic]

Were any of the test subjects black? They keep telling us only white people are racist..........

[Neoliberalnot]

If it would we should stuff bottles down Bo, moochelle, and holder, just to get started.

[Dick Holmes]

This is actually interesting news. Propranolol is a beta blocker, used to treat hypertension, anxiety and panic.

Propranolol is often used by musicians and other performers to prevent stage fright. It has been taken by surgeons to reduce their own innate hand tremors during surgery.

So, unconscious racism might be anxiety or panic based.