It's not news that there quite a bit of racial bias going on in this country, even in the minds of good, smart, progressive people, and no where does this seem more glaringly obvious than in our justice system. While we may call out the most egregious examples, is there any way to completely fix the problem when people serving on juries often have automatic, most-likely-unconscious, negative reactions to black defendants? Can a black man ever get a fair trial from an all-white jury?

Harvard professor Mahzarin Banaji, who created a popular computerized test that measures implicit racial bias, says probably not. Banaji is a witness in the pre-trial hearing of Michael Addison, a black New Hampshire man charged with capital murder for the shooting death of a white police officer. Of the thousands of people across the country who have taken her test, 88 percent of whites show bias against blacks. In New Hampshire, the statistics show a slightly higher bias. Addison's lawyers brought Banaji in to testify because they say it's impossible for their client to get a fair trial in a majority-white state like New Hampshire. Based on her findings, Banaji, who says this is the first trial for which she has felt comfortable testifying, agrees.

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ABC News' John Quinones and his crack team of liars is back to make New Yorkers look calloused and cowardly, and to extrapolate some great truths about human instinct (but mostly just to make New Yorkers look like pussies).

For a special called What Would You Do? airing tonight on ABC, Quinones hired actors to portray public incidents of domestic violence. He then filmed the reactions of people who came across the scenes. The veteran newsman has done this a few times in the past, each time feigning shock when women by themselves walk right by raging men who are clearly unafraid of hurting women. But on tonight's episode, Quinones "[kicked] it up yet another notch" and made the fighting couples interracial. In one case, a white man berates a black woman, in another, a black man kicks his white girlfriend.

Watch above for specifics about what happened, but here's the gist: "As it turned out, race may have been a factor in terms of who intervened, and with which couple. Over two days of shooting, we noticed that women seemed less inclined to intervene when the abusive boyfriend was African-American and the victim white." Why? "African-Americans are stereotypically more aggressive than Caucasians … They [passersby] may have been more hesitant for that reason."

Some eggheads at the Center for Attaching Numbers to Common Sense have come to the conclusion that African American teen mothers are more likely to get pregnant again if they're depressed.

Researchers examined almost 300 black moms between the ages of 12(!!!!!!!!!!!) and 18 living in Baltimore – home of The Wire and many killings – and discovered that teenage mothers with symptoms of depression reported subsequent pregnancies 44 percent more often than other mothers.

The study also found that depressed women are more likely to drop out of school and have unsafe sex, which fills out the equation perfectly:

teenage mom + lots of free time + little to no self-respect = another baby

According to a report released last month, many Americans who consider themselves unprejudiced still subconsciously link blacks with apes. We nearly spit our banana all over our monitor at the news!

"Historical racist images and books dehumanizing African Americans in the 19th and early 20th century relied heavily on the Negro-ape metaphor, which was used to stereotype Blacks as lazy, dim and aggressive," said lead author Phillip Atiba Goff, assistant professor of psychology at Penn State. "Such dehumanization and animal imagery have been used for centuries to justify violence against many oppressed groups.

"The images have disappeared from popular culture and from most people's memory," he added. "However, after completing six studies, we found strong evidence that Black-ape linkages still influence people subconsciously and impact their judgment particularly in the case of African American suspects and defendants."

In one study, researchers "primed" their test subjects by showing them subliminal images on a screen of either black or white male faces. They then showed them pictures of blurred apes. Their findings were that the subjects could identify blurry drawings of apes much faster after being primed with black faces than with white faces.

Another study looked into the language used in hundreds of Philadelphia Inquirer articles from 1979 to 1999 about people convicted of capital crimes. Black defendants were about four times more likely to be described with terms deemed "ape-relevant," like "barbaric," "beast," "brute," "savage" and "wild."

Researchers say that as recently as last decade California state police would refer to cases involving black men as NHIs: No Humans Involved.