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In such a beautiful world, you’d be happy to know that you’re appreciated or respected, right?
Okay what if you’re not?
The worst label to stamp on someone is a racist label.
When do you invoke the racist label in a situation?
Can you identify when someone is actually consciously or unconsciously racist?
What does someone have to do for us to label them racist?
Are blacks becoming immune to racism or resilient to it?
These questions seem obvious but these comments from black brothers and sisters re-enforces my line of questions.
“I have never experienced racism…,” The words of a black brother in Canada.
“…Never is a very strong word. I could almost agree with you because as for myself, I can say I have experienced racism once BUT the more I think about it, I think I have built a resilience towards it and do not let it bother me or ignore it. Because of that, I cannot count how many times I have experienced racism,” a black sister commented.
“…I experienced it at work sometime ago. I didn’t even realize it until a colleague pointed it out to me that ‘hey you have just been racially profiled by that patient’”. Another black sister shared her experience at work.
Racism, racial profiling, racial prejudice, racial discrimination, racial supremacy, and what ever name you call it are all different manifestations that stem from interactions between two persons or groups, in which one is a receiver (the victim), and the other is a perpetrator (the racist).
In Canada, systemic racism is invoked in words, phrases, and questions such as,“Immigrants” to refer to people who have been Canadians for ever.
“People of colour” to refer to minorities.
“Racialize communities” to mean minorities.
“Where are you from” is the first question in a conversation with a stranger.
The question of the day is, what does racism mean to you?
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