The concept of race is that it’s a construct made to oppress people with a darker complexion. For years and years, people who aren’t white have been seen as inferior. Racism has always seemed to be a problem in society & it’s mainly because it’s been passed down through generations. I’m a firm believer that no one is born racist, they’re taught it. For example, my parents taught me I could be friends with anyone I wanted, it didn’t matter what they looked like. Therefore, I didn’t see a problem with it when I became friends with a black girl in 2nd grade. I didn’t care because I honestly didn’t know the difference. All I knew was that she was a girl like me and that’s all that was important to me. As I grew older, I realized that there were different races and that they were getting treated differently than I was purely because of what they look like. I think it’s very important for people to be educated on these matters, especially white people. They’re so blinded by their own privilege that they don’t see what’s going on in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The concept of race is that it’s a construct made to oppress people with a darker complexion. For years and years, people who aren’t white have been seen as inferior. Racism has always seemed to be a problem in society & it’s mainly because it’s been passed down through generations. I’m a firm believer that no one is born racist,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785],"tags":[785,51782,193786],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-white-privilege"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}