Definition: Recognizing racism is the ability to discern the presence of negative racial stereotyping and its response/reaction and relevance to the current situation presenting itself.

Our second post on the American Racism 101 Blog is the continuation of concrete examples of racist’s behavior, incidents, exhibited in America. See if you recognize some of these incidents.

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13. When it takes about 55 bullets for the police to” stop” and question you in the front doorway of your home and you are unarmed. That’s racism.

14. When you are pulled over by the police, are handcuffed, have your car searched, are then released and haven’t been given a ticket for any crime. That’s racism.

15.When all the police practice shooting targets are Black. That’s racism.

16. If four years later after the hurricane you are still living in a FEMA trailer in New Orleans. That’s racism.

17. If you tried to leave the Superdome after the Katrina Hurricane because people were sick and dying around you and it was legal to detain you there without food or water, by gunpoint. That’s racism. THAT’S HATE.

18. When the African American President’s television address to school children on the “Value of an Education” is boycotted by parents and schools as governmental interference and indoctrination while the previous white president was informed about the 911 attacks on the country while personally speaking to children in a school classroom, without criticism. That’s racism.

19. When an elected Congressman from South Carolina yells out in a derogative manner calling the Black President a liar during a televised Presidential address to the nation and the world, the first time ever in this nation’s history. That’s racism!

20. When a former white President of the United States from Georgia says that the African American President is being attacked by many white’s strictly because he is Black. That’s racism. Called out!

21. When it requires a hail of bullets directed at you by the police, that have been called by family members to assist you because you lay unconscious in your car, to “awaken” you for questioning. That’s racism!

22. When you meet an old friend you haven’t seen for thirty years and you have been married and divorced twice, have a granddaughter who is entering college and you have traveled around the world several times and the first thing she says to you is “What have you done with your hair? You NOW have a short natural and your friend NOW has a long straight weave. That’s racism, internalized.

23. When you hear family talk about a problem between each other and it is referred to as “Nigga, Nigga Shit.” That’s racism, internalized.

24. When you hear prominent Blacks during the presidential campaign being critical of the African American candidate as not being “Black Enough” because of his family background. That’s racism, internalized.

25. When you epitomize the “Crabs in a barrel syndrome” where when one crab gets too close to successfully escaping the imprisonment of the barrel another crab beneath him grabs him and pulls him back down into the barrel of imprisonment. Therefore when you write a book about a very successful, internationally respected, and beloved Black celebrity as an exercise in total negative bashing, a public lynching, highlighting only perceived problems never confirmed by law, psychologically analyzing behaviors and assigning diagnosis without any credentialed expertise, and without the inclusion of medical evidence as truth, and doing so with little mention of their phenomenal successes, their humanity, or most profoundly, and inexcusably their talent, to apparently guarantee, justify and cement your own professional status in another’s community, for “dissing” one of your own. That’s racism, internalized.

TO NAME JUST A FEW (in my opinion)
I hope this helps.

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