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Lauren
N. Nile & Jack C Straton
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the consequences that our denial has on people of color. This
reaction may also be characterized by the "GUILT"
mnemonic by changing the last word from "Timidity"
to "Tyranny."
In reality, open displays of guilt and its
accompanying behavior shifts our attention from the oppressed
back to ourselves, and in so doing (Wiseheart, 1995), actually
reinforces for European Americans a very basic privilege-the
privilege of not having to think about racism if we so choose.
At a minimum, this means that we expect people
of color to not only view their experiences through our lenses,
but to then also make the extra effort of describing their experiences
(and feelings) in a form that is palatable to usi.e., to present
them in a "comfortable," non-threatening manner.2
Sadly, many of us become so absorbed in attending to our feelings
of guilt that we are unable to truly and empathetically hear
the experiences of people of color, no matter how sanitized.
At all levels, guilt is an emotional trap that
keeps many European Americans stuck in a lack of both understanding
of and compassion for people of color. What follows is a list
of things to do that, if adhered to, will provide a way out
of this trap.
The first step is to "set aside"
the guilt by realizing that guilt is a normal human feeling
for those of us with a heart. This is not a suggestion to disassociate
yourself from responsibility. Rather, it is a suggestion to
"walk around" this emotional blockage to your ability
to be of service. Doing so allows us to: (1) acknowledge the
realities of what has historically happened to people of color;
(2) recognize the current manifestations of historical racism;
and (3) become effective allies to people of color by intervening
in racist events.
An important aspect of setting aside the guilt
is being clear about what you did not do, e.g., "I
didn't kidnap Afri
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cans, stuff them into the bellies of ships, and keep the survivors
in bondage for the rest of their lives." "I didn't
put
Japanese Americans into internment camps in
World War II." "I didn't round up six million Jews
in Poland, Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia and send them
to horrible deaths." You would be correct in saying all
of those things. Be very clear about what is not your
part in racism.
This does not mean, however, that you have
no responsibility to help ameliorate the present-day consequences
of those historical events. The point, rather, is that when
you know clearly what you did not do, you will be able
to much more clearly see what you can do to help eradicate
some of the present-day effects of those historical horrors.
Acknowledging what is not your responsibility,
and thus letting go of the guilt of history, will enable you
to move on to the second step-identifying what is your responsibility.
That responsibility includes understanding and acknowledging:
(1) the ways in which many European Americans have benefited
from the historical oppression of people of color, even though
we did not personally participate in it, (e.g., inheriting wealth
from a family whose money was initially made through confiscating
the land of Native Americans, land on which the unpaid labor
of African Americans was exploited to amass wealth); (2) that
while those of us alive today did not individually participate
in the historical atrocities that often make us feel guilty,
we are a member of a group that did commit those atrocities
(Seashore, 1991); (3) that we have sometimes personally
participated in the oppression of people of color,
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Racism manifests in a number of ways, including internalized,
personal, institutional, and societal. This article addresses
the specific form of racism that we refer to as "societal,"
and provides a method of responding to the guilt-based reactions
of many European Americans to the subject of racism. We examine
the "daily indignities" to which people of color are
subjected and the additional hurt they feel when those indignities
are either denied or blamed on them. Finally, we provide practical
methods for European Americans to engage in micro-revolutionary
change, using their invisible privilege to interrupt the small-scale,
insidious incidents of injustice that pass before their eyes.
Coping with the Guilt of History
One of the things that often happens to many
European Americans when we' begin to recall the catalog of horrors
committed by both Europeans and European Americans against people
of color, is that we start to feel guilty. We also often feel
resentful of people of color for "making" us feel
guilty (Tatum, 1992).
The most common reaction to our recognition
of those historical wrongs is to feel so bad about what "we
did" that we withdraw into an attitude of helplessness.
Tess Wiseheart (1995), a Portland, Oregon, advocate for abused
women, characterizes this reaction with the mnemonic:
G oing
U nder
I nto a
L lifetime of
T imidity
The second most common reaction of European
Americans is to simply deny the information that makes us feel
guilty, ignore the lessons history teaches us about oppression,
and charge ahead into the rest of our lives, oblivious to
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Lauren N. Nile is chief
executive of Nile Speaking & Training in Redlands, California;
Jack C. Straton is Asstistant Professor, University Studies,
Portland State University, Portland Oregon
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Reprinted from Multicultural Education 10(4), 2-6
(Summer 2003).
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How to Deal
with Societal
Racism
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of European American face after face fall away upon looking at
you, only to be replaced by stony appraisal.
Lauren summarizes this particular phenomenon
by saying that, as an African American, she often literally
takes the smile off people's faces, the faces of passersby,
simply by being who she is. She summarizes the experiences of
living this way, of living with the daily indignities, in saying
that to live as a person of color is to live with a broken heart.
Typical Responses
The relevant question, of course, is: "Why
do you think clerks, waiters, shopkeepers, airline gate agents,
and so many others respond to people of color in the ways described
above?" The typical responses to that question are: "Maybe
the clerk was just having a bad day;" "Well, that
happens to me too, you know, so it couldn't have happened to
them because of their race;" "Well, if I go to the
black part of town to shop, the same thing will happen to me;"
"People of color are just too sensitive;" "I
saw that happen once, but it was because the Chinese woman just
wasn't assertive enough;" "Well, how was the person
dressed? Maybe if they'd been dressed better...."
When teaching this material, we have often
recorded student/participant responses onto newsprint. After
the students/ participants have run out of reasons, we then
show them an overhead of the typical responses. They often find
the overlap between their actual responses and the predicted
responses quite unnerving, which is usually a very powerful
learning experience for them.
Those kinds of responses are symptoms of a
lack of conceptual clarity about some of the most basic realities
of the lives of people of color. They all devalue the individual's
experiences. They devalue their pain. We
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will, however focus on two of those responses in particular, as
they are the most common.
First, the response: "Well, it happens
to me too, you know, so it couldn't happen to you because of
your color." The fallacy in that response is the simple
fact that just because a European American experienced the same
indignity doesn't mean that an African American could not have
experienced it because of race. The same perpetrator may harbor
a bias against, for example, a European American man because
he is dressed in leather and has long hair, and against a person
of color because of race. His exhibiting bias against a long-haired,
leather-wearing European American man, therefore, does not mean
that his bias against a person of color is not racially based.
Also, that response seems to imply that the
indignity is the same for the European American as it is for
the person of color. While it is true that a discriminatory
act can be frustrating and painful to both individuals, and
is equally wrong regardless of the targeted person's race, the
experience of it by the person of color and by the European
American is often extremely different. That difference is-and
this is critically important-the frequency with which such experiences
happen to people of color.
For European Americans, indignities in the
form of subtle or overt slights from others are usually random,
occasional events in their lives. For many people of color,
however, they are a common, persistent theme. That difference
in frequency makes a tremendous difference in the quality of
one's life.
Let us consider, secondly, the response: "Well,
if I go to the black part of town to shop, the same thing will
happen to me." The logical fallacy of that response is
that it totally denies the relative ease of avoiding such experiences
for European Americans, which African Americans and other people
of
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(e.g., in laughing at racist jokes); and (4) that for all of those
reasons, it is our collective responsibility to be effective
allies to people of color in not colluding in present-day racism.
The Daily Indignities
Let us now focus on one of the presentday manifestations
of historical racism, what Lauren refers to (1993) as "the
daily indignities." Many of our friends of color have told
us, for example, about clerks who wait on European American
customers before them, even if they are at the checkout counter
first. If an African American and a European American of the
same gender are dining out, it is often the case that the waiter
will give attention to, address, and ask for the order of the
European American first.
It is very common for shopkeepers to follow
around African Americans, in particular, in retail establishments
in an attempt to catch them at shoplifting. Second- and third-generation
Asian Americans are often spoken to in simplified English by
European Americans and others. Women of other ethnicities often
reflexively clutch their purses when sharing an elevator with
an African American or Hispanic man. In a line to board the
first-class cabin of an airplane (pre-9/11), Lauren noticed
the gate agent quickly allowing entry to everyone else, but
carefully scrutinizing her face, boarding pass, and ID before
passing her through to the aircraft.
Those are only a few of the numerous daily
incidents that many people of color experience here in the United
States. Imagine, if you will, living with the continual experience
of having- your honesty, your integrity, indeed,
your very character, constantly in question, constantly doubted.
Then, try to imagine, if you can, the severe emotional pain
that accompanies that reality. Imagine seeing the neutral countenance
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color simply do not enjoy.
If a European American does not like the treatment
s/he receives when shopping in "the black part of town,"
their choice is simply to not shop there. For African Americans,
however, avoiding racially-based daily indignities would require
that one shop only in the black part of town; in other
words, to restrict their shopping and other activities severely.
For African Americans and other people of color, avoiding that
kind of treatment by European Americans would require avoiding
mainstream society at large, a significantly more difficult
task than avoiding "the black part of town."
Those are only a few examples of the lack of
conceptual clarity that many European Americans have about the
reality of racism and how it impacts the daily lives of people
of color in the U.S.3 Interestingly, that conceptual
confusion is often verbally expressed with a jarring intensity:
"Well this stuff happens to everybody. If you people would
just stop playing the race card, we wouldn't have any conflict
in America." That intensity implies a self-perception of
deep understanding that stands in sharp contrast to reality.
This conceptual confusion has several significant
consequences: (1) it prevents European Americans from being
able to truly understand how racism severely limits their own
lives in terms of both self-awareness (and thus personal growth)
and in lost relationships with people of color; (2) it makes
it extremely difficult for European Americans to understand
how racism impacts society at large (in other words, they do
not see that they are members of a damaged culture and thus
are unable to envision how the world could be, absent
racism)'; and (3) it often prevents European Americans from
being able to have compassion for the excruciating pain that
people of color experience as a result of daily indignities.5
The most important questions to ask yourself at this juncture
are the following:
1. How is it that we are able to predict our
students/participants' responses? What is going on? (When we
ask our students or participants such questions, they usually
begin to feel defensive and guilty even though that isn't our
intention.)
2. How do you think people of color feel when
they hear such responses to their reality? (Responses typically
are variants of "they feel blamed for their oppression.")
It is important to acknowledge at this point that our denial
of their reality is a second indignity.
3. How do you suppose such re
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sponses might affect your relationship with a person of color?
(Trust is undermined and thus the ability to have a deep, meaningful
friendship is severely minimized.)
Unfortunately, a third indignity often accompanies
the other two-first experiencing the indignity and then having
it denied: it is the practice of blaming people of color for
causing racial strife by "talking, about racism too much."
Lauren has heard this referred to by a workshop participant
as "being called crazy for pointing out craziness."6
In sum, many European Americans "get"
people of color once by committing racist acts, twice by denying
and minimizing their behavior and engaging in fallacious universalizations,
and then a third time by trying to place blame on people of
color for bringing attention to the issue. Although many European
Americans of good will will condemn indignities of the first
kind and shun those who commit them, they nevertheless will
often commit the second and third indignities. They will deny
and minimize racist behaviors, engage in fallacious universalizations
of the experiences of people of color, and be resistant to engage
in meaningful dialogue about the daily indignities, believing
and often articulating that the person of color is too sensitive
and/or is "once again playing the race card." We believe
that denying and minimizing the painful experiences of people
of color is just as hurtful as causing them.
A parallel may help to understand why. Consider
the plight of many women who have experienced the following:
The woman goes to her friends, parents, or clergy with a story
of abuse at the hands of her husband. Their reaction is to deny
the abuse by telling her that her husband is a perfect gentleman
around them. They minimize the harm by commenting on her lack
of bruises. They universalize her plight by saying that "everyone
has to deal with difficulties in marriage." Finally, they
blame her for her own abuse, saying that "if only she would
be a better wife, he wouldn't be mean to her."7
Perhaps, consequently, she returns to her husband,
who eventually kills her. Society would certainly condemn the
abuser for murder, but would very likely not hold the friends
or others responsible for their complicity in her death. In
truth, however, without their denial and minimization of the
abuser's behavior, their universalizing of her experience and
their blaming her for her dangerous predicament, the woman might
have fled.
Our point is that even though, in general,
we do not condemn any but "the hand that holds the knife,"
as a society it is imperative that we begin
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to understand that denial and minimization of objectionable behavior,
false universalizations of the
victim's experience and reversal of blame,
all contribute to the deadly outcome. We must learn that all
of those acts have serious consequences.
White Privilege
Both denial and blaming the victim are overt
manifestations of an underlying sense of entitlement that is
usually invisible to many European Americans. Victor Lewis (1994),
an African American, says in the video The Color of Fear:
"I don't need the help of white folks as much as I
need a sense of fairness, and an awareness about the invisible
protection and invisible privilege that you have."
That invisible privilege and protection manifests
in various ways, but in essence is the unearned privilege of
living one's life totally free of racially-based daily indignities.
Before asking students in his class to brainstorm a list of
white privileges,' Jack set himself the same task prior to reviewing
Peggy McIntosh's (1988) list that he had read many years earlier.
It is a significantly different and complimentary list:
· People assume that "normal people"
(i.e., European Americans) are generally intelligent. It is
therefore not remarkable for them to succeed, with sufficient
training, at biology, engineering or any other field of endeavor
of their choosing. As a European American, therefore, if I were
not chosen to play quarterback on my high-school football team,
I did not have to wonder about whether this decision was based
on the assumption that whites are not intelligent enough to
call plays. (Most European Americans have no idea how painful
the badge of intellectual inferiority is for many people of
color, and for African Americans specifically.)
· If I am a public figure, I will not
have to think about whether I will be labeled a "militant"
because my speaking style is too strident.
· As a European American, my perceived
sense of safety is not undermined by an ongoing series of
newspaper headlines detailing horrific crimes against people
who look like me (1994), such as a white man being dragged to
death behind a
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pickup truck driven by people of color. Most importantly, my actual
safety is usually not compromised by a person of color.9
· I have the tremendous privilege of seeing
police officers as my friends. I don't have to wonder whether
the officer who stops me is a member of one of the many brotherhoods
devoted to Black Supremacy.
· If my children act out in a public place,
I can safely assume that neither their behavior nor my response
to it will be attributed to our skin color.
· If I am occasionally in a bad mood,
I don't have to worry that if I let it show at work I will thereby
undermine the public image of whites.
· I have the privilege of sharing group
membership with those who occupy the White House, most of the
Supreme Court10 (Shepard, 1998), both houses of Congress,
state legislatures, and CEOs and boards of directors of major
corporations. In other words, the people who run the country
look like me. Most European Americans are totally oblivious
to the unconscious feeling of power this reality gives them.
· I don't have to tell my teenage son
that he cannot hang out in public with his friends because if
a European American commits a robbery within ten miles of his
location, a passing police officer may stop, search, harass
and possibly beat and arrest him for that crime. Likewise, adult
white men have the privilege of not being stopped, searched
and harassed by police simply because a "white man"
was seen committing a robbery in the neighborhood (African American
Blasts, 1998).
· I may have to care for my daughter's
skinned knee and her rejection from the in-group, but I don't
have to talk with her about why strangers look at her sternly
and coldly and may be rude to her.
· If I have heart problems, my doctor
is far more likely to recommend sophisticated cardiac tests
for me than if I were a man of color (Goldstein, 1999).
· If I return clothes without a receipt,
the clerk will unhesitatingly give me, an in-store credit and
will certainly not feel through the clothes looking for anti-theft
devices
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(Anderson, 1998). On a daily basis, European Americans have the
privilege of walking through all types of retail establishments
without having clerks follow us around because of a stereotype
that "whites steal."
· I can choose to not be sensitive to
the racially offensive behavior of people around me in public
places when I am with my European American friends, unlike when
I'm with, for example, my Latin American friends. (Having people
of color as close friends is often a very powerful experience
for European Americans that opens their eyes to the harsh, persistent
reality of the daily indignities of people of color.)
This list could have gone on and on, but the
point is abundantly clear: white privilege is a reality. Yet
so many European Americans feel powerless and unprivileged in
our lives. For instance, at work we may feel like drones toiling
for the boss. It is important, however, that we remember that
it is not as whites that we are oppressed by our bosses;
rather, it is through the hierarchy of class. Imagine
experiencing that classism in addition to racism."
So, now that white privilege has become more
visible to you, should you feel guilty about it? Of course not.
It is not something you created. Besides, remember that we are
learning to "set guilt aside" as a paralyzing response.
Should you throw your privilege away? That,
unfortunately, is impossible. You receive it simply because
you are white, even though you may not want it. It often just
results from whites being more comfortable around you.
Tess Wiseheart suggests that the best we can
do is appropriately utilize our unearned privilege (Wiseheart,1995).
Since European Americans often have the privilege of having
their viewpoints on race really heard as opposed to dismissed
as oversensitivity, it is our responsibility to use that voice
for change. It is also sometimes helpful to teach other European
Americans to recognize their privilege by explicitly pointing
out our own privilege in a given situation.
Keep in mind that this entire discussion of
the nature of privilege was not designed to make you feel bad.
Instead, it was designed to provide contrast to help you see
(1) how racism dramatically and painfully affects the lives
of people of color, and (2) what you can do about it.
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Micro-revolutionary Work
You will find, as you begin to actively work
for justice, that you have power to change society for the
good. In Zen circles it is said that upon realizing our
enlightenment, we discover that we have always been enlightened.
In the same way, as we find the power to do good, we find that
we have always had the power to do good. If we want to be free
of feeling guilty and defensive, the best medicine is to act.
The flip side of guilt is outrage at what others did and continue
to do in our name.
One European American student came back to
class the day after Jack began teaching a racism module, boiling
over with excitement that she was able to instantly interrupt
an act of racism the preceding evening. Debbie12
was selling tickets at a movie house the night before. A European
American man in line behind a Chinese American woman reached
across the woman's shoulder with a $20 bill and asked for a
ticket. Debbie said she felt so empowered as she calmly told
the man: "She was here first." That awareness, combined
with that simple act of courtesy and honesty, is an important
element at the core of anti-racist activism.
Jack has created a repository on the Web where
ordinary people share their stories of how they have intervened
across racial lines, The Racial Intervention Story Exchange
(RISE): <http://rise.pdx.edu/index.html>. You are invited
to read these stories and pass them on to your students, workshop
participants, and colleagues, and you (and they) are very much
invited to contribute your (their) own stories.
When a waiter looks first at you to take your
order, instead of at your Latina friend, gently but firmly redirect
the waiter's attention to your friend by shifting your eyes
in her direction. The next time you see a shop clerk following
an African American around a store in an attempt to catch her
shoplifting, follow that clerk around until he becomes
selfconscious. These are only two of the many, many simple but
yet very powerful ways that it is possible for us in our daily
lives, to be effective allies to people of color. Our experience
is that once people realize how simple interventions can be,
they become anxious to find opportunities to try out their new-found
skills.
Not colluding through silence in the mistreatment
of people of color is half of what it means to be an effective
ally. The other half is standing up to friends who exhibit racist
behavior, which, when it does happen, usually occurs in all-white
groups. When one of them
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starts to tell a racist joke, calmly tell him that you don't want
to hear it. One of the simplest strategies to use among your
peers in this situation, is to either withhold laughter or to
walk out of the room, or both. Those who tell racist jokes depend
on your support to feel that it is acceptable for them to continue
that behavior. Simply withholding your support sends them a
powerful message that you will not collude. After gaining confidence
at this, try telling them that you feel uncomfortable when you
hear a racist joke, because you associate it with the people
of color you care about.
Finally, you will find that as you begin to
consistently live your life as an ally, as it becomes a habit
to take these little actions to stand up for what is morally
right, doing so will become a matter of conscience for you.
Once it does, you will find yourself letting go of some friendships
and simultaneously gaining others-others that are often far
richer and far deeper than those with the friends you outgrow.
If you look at the above list of antiracist
activities, you may well think that standing up against the
daily indignities is simple; and you would be quite right. 13
It takes so little action on your part to interrupt the
daily indignities. As more people do so, enormous change will
begin to take place for those for whom those little bits of
injustice become a daily, living hell. So many of us have wanted
to help, but have wondered how one person could really make
a difference in ending racism. The good news is that in simply
interrupting the daily indignities, you are contributing significantly
to that goal.
Interrupting the racism you witness is no big
deal, if you are willing to start, and starting is no big deal
if you are willing to forgive yourself for not having started
yet. Cherie Brown, Executive Director of the National Coalition
Building Institute, says that "guilt is the glue that holds
prejudice in place" (Personal communication, 1999). If
you just let your guilt drift away, you will be displaying self-love
as well as displaying love for others as you become free to
work on ending the misery they suffer.
It is one of the great truths that among the
biggest impediments to the process of transforming our world
into a world of justice, are guilt and fear (Finn, 1999). A
corresponding truth is that we often fail to do that transformative
work because we get stuck in our need for a certain self-imagethe
need to avoid seeing ourselves as bad so that we do not feel
badly about ourselves. That "self-im
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age need" often prevents us from becoming the shining examples
of love that we want to and can be. It is time, very simply,
to get out of ourselves and get into the world.
Notes
1 Since understanding and transforming
the feelings of European Americans on the subject of race is
the objective of this paper, we have in many instances shifted
the paper's voice into the ethnic identity of one of its authors,
Jack C. Straton, a European American. Since doing so, however,
will tend to invisiblize the other author, Lauren N. Nile, an
African American, we wish the reader to note that the order
of their names above reflects the authors' relative contributions
to the ideas expressed herein.
2 The next level attention-shift
plays itself out more often in the arena of sexism than in racism:
men who feel guilty nonverbally seeking emotional reassurance
from women about how guilty they feel about sexism.
3 Our belief is that this total
lack of awareness by most European Americans of the daily indignities
experienced by people of color accounts for the dramatic differences
of opinion on racial issues between people of color and European
Americans reported in most national opinion polls.
4 Imagine, if you will, a world
in which Adolph Hitler had succeeded in imposing his Third Reich
on the globe for some two hundred years, and a culture in existence
a hundred and thirty-six years after a revolution had finally
toppled Nazi rule. Could inhabitants of that world even imagine
what it would be like to live in a world in which Hitler had
instead been defeated? They would be members of a horrifically
damaged culture, most of whom would probably not even be able
to see that the substructure on which their entire culture is
supported, is based upon a twisted, horrid system of abject
oppression.
It is in like manner that just one-hundred
and thirty-eight years after the end of slavery in the United
States, many European Americans are unable to see, and, indeed,
adamantly and angrily deny, that much of American society was
built on a foundation of the unmitigated persecution of African
Americans, Native Americans and other people of color.
5 We acknowledge that many people
of color also have a certain level of conceptual confusion about
the issues of race and racism.
6 This is akin to what often happens
in workshops on male violence; labeling as "male bashing"
the act of bringing attention to male violence.
7 The reversal of blame can also
occur on a larger scale, when women's advocates in the community,
who might have offered the woman a realistic assessment of her
danger, have their funding cut as a result of lobbying by Father
Rightists who accuse women's advocates of "male bashing."
8 If your students/participants
have difficulty with this at first, you can have them brainstorm
male privilege, Christian privilege, or privilege associated
with sexual orientation, physical ability, or age, as a warm-up
exercise.
9 Most crimes to one's person are committed within
racial groups, not across them.
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10 In fact, only seven of the 397 law clerks who have
worked for Supreme Court justices are of African ancestry, and
no Native American has ever served in such a position.
11 Just as many women-of-color experience
the reality of racism in addition to living with sexism.
12 Debbie Jayne, Freshman Inquiry, PSU, Fall Term
1995.
13 We acknowledge, however, that
while the action itself is simple, mustering up the courage
to make that first intervention can be more difficult. However,
because of the tremendous difference that doing so can have
in the lives of people of color, it is a moral imperative that
we do.
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