Chapter 4:

All American Girl vs Injustice

Chapter 4:

 

 

Today, I want to talk to you today about inadvertent and sometimes blatant remarks in which the average person participates.  There are three terms we need to define first: (1) stereotype, (2) prejudice, (3) racism. I’m using simple Googled definitions and providing examples from my own experience.

 

Stereotype--

Definition: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. 

Example: Oh—your husband is black?  Is it true what they say . . . “once you go black, you never go back?”

 

Prejudice—

Definition:  preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Example: Oh—your husband is black?  Is he a good provider for you?

 

Racism—

Definition: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

Example: Oh—your husband is black?  I don’t believe in mixed marriages.  Why would you want to dilute your white race?

 

Don’t get these terms mixed up.  They are not interchangeable, but they are often incorporated into our thinking to make them so. NONE of these examples are acceptable questions, yet I’ve been asked these, and others like them, over and over again by friends, acquaintances, and total strangers.  Seriously? One thing I’ve learned though, with the exception of the out-and-out racist, if you educate people, they stop asking the inappropriate questions.  So let’s learn to talk to each other.

 

 

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