What do terms like systemic racism, microaggression and white fragility mean? Understanding these terms and their meanings is important, sociology and African American experts say, for anyone who hopes to be a meaningful ally in tackling racism:
Police were called to the scene after protesters tore down the statue in Virginia's capital.Systemic racism. White privilege. Institutional racism. Microaggression. White fragility.
Additionally, these communities tend to have a lower tax base and as a result, their schools have fewer resources to educate children of color. That puts those communities' kids behind their white peers academically, epidemiology, sociology and African American studies experts told ABC News. A man walks through the courtyard outside his apartment in the Gilmor Homes with two of his six children, one year after Freddie Gray died, April 19, 2016, in Baltimore.
Structural racism is currently playing out in the ways people of color who disproportionately make up the-- all now deemed"essential" to help the nation reopen are being impacted, Bailey said. A Marine Corps recruit has his hair shorn during the early hours of his training at Parris Island, in South Carolina.
Experts say a recent and widely-condemned example of white privilege was when Amy Cooper, who is white, and was walking her dog off-leash in New York City’s Central Park"Ramble", called the police and falsely claimed that Christian Cooper, who is black and was bird watching, was"an African American man threatening my life."
White privilege plays out in other more subtle ways too--especially in corporate spaces, Gillespie said, pointing to instances when those who have access to elite colleges and social clubs through a family legacy built during a time when people of color were not allowed such access, then use those connections to help their children, friends and the kids of their friends gain connections and jobs.
While it is normal to feel upset when confronted with uncomfortable truths and perspectives, white fragility supports racism because it shifts the power dynamic in an insidious way, Neal said. All of a sudden, the conversation becomes less about what the person of color experienced, but the white person's reaction, and, in so doing, is an attempt to undercut the validity of the person of color's experience.
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