For this discussion, visit the Harvard Implicit Association Test Website, (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and take the race demo test to do a self-check on your individual bias.

For this discussion, visit the Harvard Implicit Association Test Website, (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and take the race demo test to do a self-check on your individual bias. For purposes of this assignment, imagine you are a co-mediator with “Bill.” You met Bill several years ago, when you were both training to be mediators and developed a friendship. You and Bill have co-mediated on several occasions and have developed a team approach that really works for the information gathering part of a mediation. You play off each other, almost like a “good cop, bad cop” type of interaction. You are currently gathering information prior to the mediation when you start to have a feeling that something isn’t right. The parties to the mediation are Joe, the owner of Joe’s Park Side Restaurant, and Mary, the hostess at Joe’s. Mary is also in charge of the dining room, while Joe manages the kitchen. Joe and Mary are having a disagreement about Mary's treatment of certain customers. Mary, on most evenings seems to seat only black people in the area of the dining room close to the kitchen and away from the front of the restaurant, where the best tables are which overlook the park. This situation only come to Joe’s attention when a new server asked Joe to come out of the kitchen one night to look. The new server and Mary have been arguing for several weeks that servers should rotate the sections of the dining room they serve each night. Mary is punishing the new server for not agreeing with her management style by making her serve the back of the dining room. You ask how Joe feels about most of the black customers being seated in the back of the dining room. Joe clearly feels that Mary is being racist and she should seat people without discriminating by race. Bill then asks Mary how she feels about the situation. Mary is offended by the accusation, citing that many of her friends are black. Bill reflects that Mary is just punishing the new server for insubordination by keeping her in the back of the restaurant. You become concerned. You ask Joe if he agrees with Mary’s position. Joe remarks he does not care about the dispute between Mary and the new server, but he just does not like how his restaurant might be perceived if black customers are being seated in the back of the dining room only. Bill says, "Mary must be mad at Jenny because not only is she not allowing Jenny to work the better part of the dining room, but we all know that black people are terrible tippers, right Mary?" Mary wholeheartedly agrees with Bill. You look over at Joe and he is as dumbfounded as you are. Answer the following questions and be sure to cite references: What do you do with this outward expression of Bill’s implicit bias, as well as Mary’s? Do you ask to caucus with Bill? Do you terminate the mediation because the issue may not be able to be addressed fairly? Do you caucus with Joe to suggest he discontinue the mediation and think about having every worker at the restaurant attend a sensitivity training? Do you ask Joe what he thinks a good solution to the dispute would be and act as if nothing was really meant by Bill’s statement and Mary’s response to it?