Momma's Memories and the New Equalities

Momma's Memories and the New Equalities

This article by Young talks about racism today. Racism today it different than it was back in the 1950's that colored people couldn't sit in front of a bus or had to go to a different school from the whites. Today's racism deals with Microaggression ( making sterotypical assumptions).

People now a days try to ignore the fact that there are other races by just being "color blind" this is just an atteempt to ignore the existence of another race. School teachers now are "code switching" meaning that they are translating black dialet into standard English for students. This is wrong in so many ways because they  are making it seem like color people are aliens to our society and the feel like its the right thing to do to translate they way they communicate, the way the express themselves. People drown in their own ignorance a perfect example of this is Senator Harry Reid when he commented on how Obama is such a successful Politician because he has "light skin and he does not have a negro dialect, unless he wanted to."

Young's argues his point of view by sharing a story that his good friends daughter Shayla experienced microggression first hand. Some of her classmates where asking her why she was so black, why was her hair so curly, why was her but so big? They did not mean to be racist towards her they were just curious why she was so different than they were. Other meaningful key terms in this article where Microinsult (which is communication that convey and demean a persons racial heritage or identity) and Microinvalidation ( communication that exclude, negates, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiental reality of a person of color)

This article made me realize that racism isn't no where near over and that some times racism isn't intended but it still occurs. We need to create racist free place for the future generations to follow.