The
other day my niece who lives in Chicago ILL and is a Fed-X delivery person,
posted on her posted this on her status: “So
I'm(black girl) carrying a boxes about 20-30lbs down a hallway, white man
barely moves so I can get pass. The receptionist
(of the dominate culture) comes out to help me and she has to walk thru this
same hallway with the same boxes, not only does he move out of her way, he ask
if she needed help as he gave her hostile glare”. This, specific incident of bias and
prejudices diminished her equity because this was a form of discrimination and
stereotypes. The man felt either that she was a strong black women or the white
woman was weak and fragile, or he was being prejudice against her; which cause my
niece to feel inferior. This incident brought
out feeling of sadness and anger; because of the daily reminders of how things
change, but they remain the same. Society as
a whole would have the change in order to turn incidents like these into opportunities
of greater equity.
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