Part 1: written reflection Source: growing up black conversation with white people on race - stage 1 and 3 The “Growing Up Black” video from the New York Times showed Black kids to Black adults explaining how they grew up as a Black person. They have experienced racism and implicit bias no matter their ages. The kids explain how White kids would go out of their way to ignore them and to come close to them. The video “Conversation With White People On Race” where people from the New York Times go around interviewing White people asking what their opinion on race is. More than half of the adults said that talking about race made them feel uncomfortable and didn't want to talk about it. They didn't want to talk about it because they didn't want to “bring up the past or slip up and say the wrong thing”. One word that kept coming up in both videos was implicit bias. In the video about “Growing Up Black” they referred to Implicit bias when a young Black boy and White girl were walking home and came up to this group of Black kids and once the little girl saw them she immediately said “let's cross the street I don't wanna go near them” this is Implicit bias because she assumes that they are dangerous or scary. Implicit bias is when you look at someone and immediately assume that they are dangerous or act out just the way that they look. When people look at people that dont look like them or don't speak the same language as them a lot of stereotypes get placed and people start to assume things about those people. Another word that came up in both videos was race. Race is when you get divided up into groups on how they appear to other people. In the video about asking White people about race, they didn't feel comfortable talking about race because they were scared, they would say something wrong or even offend some people. One guy in the video said “he doesn't talk about race because he doesn't want to offend someone on what he'd say.” One girl said that she might be racist but she doesn't think she is or believe she is but she doesn't like talking about race. Another girl said that she doesn't like to see racism that “we” made. I feel like people dont want to talk about race because they want to be anti-racist. Anti-racist is to oppose racism and promotes racial tolerance. But if you don't talk about race and educate kids on race they won't understand what race is and might slip up and say something racist. While I was watching the video about Growing Up Black it was very sad that people have to experience racism all through their life because they don't fall into the box that includes (smart,rich,white males). It breaks my heart that people would go out of their way to bypass someone that doesn't look like them. And that Black people couldn't wear clothes or accessories that they like because they look like their “gang affiliated”. I really appreciated learning about race during this unit because it taught how people of any other race other than white are treated. I was never really taught about race when I was younger so I appreciate that we learned about it this year. I've never really thought about race like this. It really makes me think about how others are getting treated, not just me. I also really liked learning about race and racial slurs so if I hear someone say anything racist I can correct and educate them on what they said wrong. So thank you a lot for teaching me about race, I highly recommend teaching this to other students.
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