{"id":32,"date":"2010-09-18T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T07:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melodydworak.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-09-18T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T17:13:25","slug":"racial-microaggression-spotted-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melodydworak.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Racial microaggression spotted on facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whoa whoa whoa, no black people in the front row. C\u2019mon man.. you know this\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

This was a comment left on a Facebook photo of my 17-year-old brother, who shares my mother but has a different father, who is black. The photo was taken at what looks like a school pep rally. I don\u2019t know if the person who left this comment is a real friend of my brother\u2019s, or just a Facebook friend, but to an outsider of that group the comment didn\u2019t look friendly at all. My gut took it as a racial microaggression<\/a>, but I don\u2019t have the context to know the relationship my brother has with this person or what all was in play.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s keeping me up tonight because although my brother is 6\u20195\u201d and has more than enough friends who have his back, I still want to kick this guy\u2019s ass. But I\u2019m not there, I have never had any conversations about race with my younger siblings, and I just don\u2019t know what they encounter on a day to day basis or what their coping mechanisms are if and when they do<\/em> experience aggression against them because of their race. It\u2019s still my battle, however, as it should be for anyone who wants to live morally.<\/p>\n

But moreso because that\u2019s my little brother there. And after him it\u2019ll be my little sisters and other little brother. They get to have the mother at home raising them unlike my childhood when she was a single mother working nights. I get to have the unquestionably white skin. I\u2019m sure they have a lot of support at home but who is going to tell them that there\u2019s even something called<\/em> racial microaggression\u2014a concept anyone who has experience can readily understand\u2014and who\u2019s going to tell them why the behavior is so bad?<\/p>\n

I know they don\u2019t teach that in school, even though he goes to a Catholic school and they\u2019re supposed to teach kids how to be kind to one another. Still I know this asshole is going to get away with this, as will anyone who doesn\u2019t get called out on this behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whoa whoa whoa, no black people in the front row. C\u2019mon man.. you know this\u2026 This was a comment left on a Facebook photo of my 17-year-old brother, who shares my mother but has a different father, who is black.…<\/span><\/p>\n

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