The Racial Profiling Game

Sometimes, an invitation to play is also an invitation to learn. A game called "Sorting People." offered as an online componnent of PBS's three-part series "Race: The Power of an Illusion," offers its players just such an experience.

Your task is to sort the images of 20 different people into one of five "racial" groups. After you try it, it becomes clear why I put quotees around "racial." You can't play this little human solitaire game without reflecting on your own images, and stereotypes. It's a purposefully difficult challenge - one that even you would find worth trying.

Even though you know you're going to lose.

Because some of the people in the pictures are just too hard to classify. Which is, of course the whole point.

Sorting People is a "Pointy" Game. Good enough to play for fun. Embarassingly good.