Racism

“If a man calls me a nigger, he is calling me something I am not. Internalized racism is paying less attention to other races, besides the Caucasian race, and educated them in certain institutions. When one discriminates against a certain race or people, or culture, because of one thing or another, he or she can be called racist. (Marian Anderson, ‘My Life in a White World’). When you were younger, did you ignore someone because of their skin color? Or did you ignore someone because of the way they dressed? Even now, do you? I’m sure you do, I do, everyone probably does. ” (Dick Gregory, The Shadow that Scares Me. Although I never considered myself raciest, I have learned that just by not talking to someone because of the was they dressed, or the way they talked, or how they had their hair done, is in fact being raciest. Equal attention is not pad to the negative impact of societal forces, such as racism, and segregation, nor is enough attention being paid to educational systems that discriminate against students of color and their families. Take the music population for example, many African American rappers use the word ‘nigga’ but if a white person were to use it, they would be considered raciest, so is a African American raciest if he uses the word “nigga”? I doubt it. For many members of oppressed racial and ethnic groups, there is always depression, wither economically, or emotionally, or mentally. More than enough employment areas consist of white men and women, not of color. They proceed of saying one thing, and doing complete opposite. “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons or property will be safe” (Fredrick Douglas, April 1886).