https://contemporaryracism.org/5653/what-white-people-dont-get/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Sun, 15 Dec 2019 02:19:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/5653/what-white-people-dont-get/comment-page-1/#comment-1029 Sun, 15 Dec 2019 02:19:56 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=5653#comment-1029 From a very, very young age we are taught the proper way to deal with race is to ignore it. This, as we have learned is clearly not the way to address race. But what is happening is that each generation teaches the new generation that this is how to deal with it. Teachers need to be taught that they must in turn teach their students that we need to talk about race. Some students are shocked to learn that Martin Luther King Jr. is black. It is crazy to think when teaching about the Civil Rights Movement, teachers have somehow forgotten that MLK Jr. is black?? Or maybe that this didn’t seem relevant?? Racism isn’t getting better because whites are ignoring it.

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