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Hey All! I went to my first rally for social justice. It was nothing like what you see on tv thats for sure (lol). Anyways it was a mixture crowd, and that was cool, but it wasn't enough of us. There were a few here and there but not many. I was reading in a pamphlet about an organization that fights against racism. This organization is about white people not being racist and helping people of color. They offer an 8 week seminar that you have to pay for to teach you how not be racist and how people of all colors should get along. I really didn't know what to think of that so I just kept it moving. Well that has been on my mind all day. What do you think?

Posted By: chivonne lawson
Saturday, September 13th 2008 at 10:54PM
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Counter to what many racist groups preach…racism and/or ethnic prejudice is not innate. We are born with an instinctively collective/curious nature. Sadly, we are trained that others are different and how to treat/ respond to differences: if they don’t speak, walk, smell, dress, act, or look like our ethnic or racial group. For many Americans, they were trained at an early age on how to feel about groups that are dissimilar from their own.

So how do you correct it? I would agree with a program to re-educate folks how not to be prejudice and/or a racist.

I’m sure there are lots of non-Blacks who don’t know that specific words, looks, phrases or gestures are deemed as racist by “most” black folks: Boy, colored, describing something’s color using the front or back of the hand, looking a people “up & down”, or something as unintended as saying…”hey you, come here”.
If a person who wants to do better and not be seen as a racist doesn’t get the training…how do we make the problem go away?

As always…a marvelous Blog!

Sunday, September 14th 2008 at 9:56AM
Dr. Ahmad Glover

I understand that but how can a person not of color tell someone what phrases or words are offensive to people of color or how we feel. They can't assume and guess all they want but they don't really know because they don't experience it for themselves. Their ancestors didn't have the same struggle. I'm glad they're attempting, but I still don't what to think about it, its i dunno it just is.
Sunday, September 14th 2008 at 1:50PM
chivonne lawson