Systemic racism explained
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Systemic racism affects every area of life in the US. From incarceration rates to predatory loans, and trying to solve these problems requires changes in major parts of our system. Act.tv takes a closer look at what systemic racism is, and how we can solve it.
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increase contact with people who are different from you, be specific in your intent. and Change the way you do things. Take care of yourself.
So true! We are all equal!
We should realise that everyone is purely equal
Its really hard to remove all implicit biases but maybe you can start by seeing multiple perspectives of every race and not just have one image.
When issues are not easy to conclude but somehow I have opinions without rational reasons, this means that I used my own implicit biases. Having questioning my opinions in any situation helps improve my ability to avoid such irrational and emotional decisions.
The realisation that it is not the first thought that defines me (social belief systems’ but the second (awareness of social customs on my belief systems, analysis of underlying bias, change of underlying bias).
We are all equal!
i agree too
This is a tough one because the very programs designed to counteract inequalities have just the opposite effect. I would suggest eliminating all mention of race or racial criteria in society. The focus and attention on race just promotes bias. Ironically, blacks in the US are just as racist, if not more so, than whites. The example of systemic racism actually goes the other way under affirmative action leading to the employment of less qualified quota minorities and favoring them over whites in college admissions and in jobs, far from eliminating racism this just causes resentment and promotes racism. In fact, knowing admissions standards are lower for minorities actually works against the truly qualified minorities because we assume they were admitted under affirmative action. Traditionally elitist schools are expected to meet arbitrary quotas of minorities, But black colleges like Howard are not expected to give scholarships to poor whites to fill a quota,
Realize that everybody in the world is equal, no matter what skin color they have.In 2nd grade, I think everybody was taught about Martin Luther King Junior.He wrote a speech along the lines of racism, dealing with implicit bias, and systematic racism.
He dreamed about changing the way humans think.He spread his message about how he wants to see white and black kids in the same school, studying the same thing, equally doing the same curriculum.
Rosa Parks, who never got off of the seat she was sitting on, even though the white person demanded her too.
She didn’t care if she got arrested, because spreading the message that racism is unhealthy for world was enough for her.
Ghandi, who boycotted against the British, and even got assassinated in a speech, still spread the message.There are thousands of figures, such as Jackie Robinson, who are now a model, because of their perseverance while conquering racism.Listen and study one of them, and you’ll realize how to identify racism.Thanks
As idealistic as this may sound, I have always thought that looking at every person on this planet the same way is what we want to do. Everyone has the right to be treated fairly and the same as others, unless they abuse that right by breaking the law and/or hurting another.
I have a mixed marriage and mixed race children. We had recent conversations about systemic racism and implicit bias with them and they feel our mixed race family and friends helped them limit their biases. They see different biases in their friends whose family and friends were limited to a single race. There is not such thing as being socially color blind but if we all have rich diversity in our social relationships, we will effect change.
By calling yourself out or others people will start to become aware of what their doing/saying
I have seen overall black neighborhoods and they aren’t as wealthy as whites I have seen.
If you catch yourself thinking or saying something like that, you can stop, and change your action
So true!!!! #blacklivesmatter
If we socialize ourselves with other people society will see and be like they are not all bad and they are the same as us. We are all one human race, the way we look shouldn't have to change other peoples biases.
1. we should be realistic:
a. the biases still exist, even within a homogeneous group due to privileges, prejudices, false assumptions;
b. we need an effective education, that would change the situation;
c. we need a social tool to stop the wrong attitudes and practices;
d. we need the circumstances, under which it would be impossible to be a racist, a discriminator, a hater, even, a hidden one.
We need to be equal in power to be equal in reality.
Ivan Petryshyn
we can continue to protest and fighter all are right and fairness
is when we realize our biases and show off it
increase contact with people who are different from you, be specific in your intent. and Change the way you do things. Take care of yourself.
A way I can identify an implicit bias I have is to try things I've never tried and then if I don't like one of those things ill keep doing it until I get used to it or like it.
we need better education in the low income communities
One way to identify and confront your own implicit biases is by first knowing what they are and from then you could try to see both sides of the fences.
We should all understand that people are people, No matter what Race.
I think that if you put yourself in more diverse situations then you can see things from different perspectives and start to confront your implicit biases. For example if you are one of those people who say "Hispanics love tacos" try to hang around more Hispanics so you can get to know there culture and understand how those type of comments make them feel. What this means is that if you put yourself in positions where you can identify your implicit biases then you can work on confronting them.
To be honest we are all human with different racial colours and identity and we should talk to people with their opinion not not by colours
Defer to the most objective standards. Treat people as individuals who share a common humanity. Don't assume racism and then go looking for it. Learn enough Critical Race Theory to reject it. Be colourblind, even in your criticism. Colourblindness does not imply “racism blindness,” - we can be colourblind by only acknowledging the minimum amount of social significance in racial categories. For example, claiming that “the system” is intrinsically anti-Black and privileging of whites implicitly assigns social significance that is very likely to be both prejudicial and discriminatory to both groups. Reject racist assumptions made about any group, individual, or system, especially when these are made in terms that are associated with racial groups (e.g., “whiteness,” “acting white,” “white” or “brown fragility,” or “white-adjacency”). Finally and most importantly, don’t put actionable social significance into racial categories for the purposes of prejudice or discrimination.
is trying to accept and met anyone who is infront of you
try to understand the cultures around you since there's a lot I don't think you'll grow tired
learning past histories and looking for more information would help me get a better understanding of the problem. then I will be able to identify my implicit biases
I think implicit biases come from our culture and the environment we live in. We cannot not have them, everyone has them because we cannot possibly control the ideas we are exposed to starting from our childhood. However, I believe we can get ahead of these biases. I see these biases as kinda overgeneralization and I always try to be aware of what I think about people/communities in terms of overgeneralization. I always try to see people as they are, not where they come from. It is hard sometimes but this is the only way to recognize people as they are. I hope I am able to make myself clear and I hope this helps.
There is no such thing as systematic racism. I have never said to myself I’m not going to be friends with someone because of there skin color. Either they are a good person to hangout with or they are not. Its hard because certain people are judging if other people are racist or not because of the color of there skin. Which is racist
very sad that people do not have the same rights and have to go through such humiliation.
You can become more aware of your own implicit bias.