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i’m gonna start a thread of times that i’ve been racist so i can keep track of things i need to be working on & so i can remember that i’m not free from racism in society & the privileges that come along with it
when i was in elementary school i warned new kids to not hang out with the black girls because they’d “end up like them”... i think this is because they were the only black girls i knew & they were treated like bad kids from the start of their education
i don’t have a lot of black friends because the gifted program is extremely segregated since teachers often reccomend kids for the program rather than having an unbiased system to bring kids in to it
the few classes i have had with actual diversity i’ve been afraid to come off as racist and i have not educated myself on black culture so i don’t end up talking to poc during school
i had a friend in middle school who would often call me racist for things i said and rather than listening to his point i would immediately get defensive (however that’s a whole other topic on having mature discussions)
when i see older black men when i’m in my car i lock the doors and justify it because i “forgot to be safe as a girl alone” but i feel that their is prejudice in me only remembering to lock the doors when i see black men
i have a preconceived notion that low income neighborhoods are largely black (partially true because black families often do not have the same opportunities as white families and have been worse off historically because of the way the government emancipated slaves)
^^ but i should not assume that all black people are from low income neighborhoods or that low income neighborhoods are only populated by poc. i’ve also been taught that low income neighborhoods are unsafe which is not true for most of them
i have purposefully stayed out of conversations on racism because i feel like i’m misrepresenting poc or saying something wrong instead of just using the wonderful resource that is the internet to educate myself and understand more about oppression & white supremacy
i ignore my family’s racist comments and ideas because i’m afraid of backlash but need to realize that i have privilege in being able to safely call out racism when i see it (i’ll add more to this thread as i think of it)
