Ten Things You Can Do To Fight Prejudice and Racism.

[Beorn]

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Be honest: Recognize your own biases and biases through open discussion with others. Examine your own prejudices, biases, and values. Discuss your own experiences of being hurt by prejudice as well as the ways you have benefitted from discrimination.
Be secure: Explore and find realistic pride in your own group identity. Having a sense of your own background and group identity will help reduce anxiety and defensiveness in relation to others. Knowing your own strengths will also help you to see strengths in others.
Be a partner: Work on projects with members of groups different from your own. Working as an equal alongside others from different groups on a common project is one of the best ways to undo prejudice and increase familiarity with others.
Be an anti-racist parent: Expose your children to diversity at a young age. Children can benefit from knowing other children from different groups at very early ages, before prejudices and biases get in the way of their making contact.
Be a role model: Be vocal in opposing racist views and practices. And don't just criticize, but help educate others about issues and about your own experiences.
Be an ally: Support victims of discrimination and prejudice. Offer support on whatever level you can. For example, offer yourself as a mentor for someone in your field of work.
Be an activist: Challenge "top-down" or institutional racism. Work to reduce institutional discrimination and prejudice in government, corporations, the media, and other institutions.
Be a member: Support anti-prejudice and anti-racist organizations. Following is a partial list of a some organizations or find one that addresses an issue particularly important to you.
Be a teacher: Teach tolerance. Fight prejudice and racism by pro-actively teaching understanding, openness, and conflict resolution skills. (The Teaching Tolerance magazine is one resource for teachers and others to get ideas and resources it is put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Be a student: Educate yourself and others. Reading books, seeing movies, going to hear speakers about the experiences of other groups is an enjoyable way to increase understanding and empathy.

Source (http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/racism/q17.html)



My favourite has to be:
Be an anti-racist parent: Expose your children to diversity at a young age.

One drive through "diverse" areas will soon put them straight. ;)

[Æmeric]

One drive through "diverse" areas will soon put them straight. ;) A drive through the local barrio or ghetto can be more exuberant then a trip to a safari park. But like the safari park you would be well advised not to get out of your car.
:monkeyeb: :costumed-smiley-007

[Grumpy Cat]

Be secure: Explore and find realistic pride in your own group identity. Having a sense of your own background and group identity will help reduce anxiety and defensiveness in relation to others. Knowing your own strengths will also help you to see strengths in others.

DING DING DING!!!

First and foremost, I am not a racist. I used to be, but I shed that. I consider myself anti-racist, however, I will not associate myself with other so-called "anti-racists" who perpetuate the whole "Anglo-Saxon whites have to be ashamed of themselves" mantra. I think it's adding to the problem, as it causes those people to be defensive and anxious when relating to other people. Also, I am not a fan of political correctness because I feel it hinders real dialogue on race issues and compounds race problems even more (companies who do sensitivity training, for example, often have fewer minorities working for them than those who don't). I am proud of my heritage and when you are proud you want to educate others, which is why I shared Acadian recipes in the "What can you cook?" thread and will share some things in that thread in the Canada forum when I get around to it, with the non-Acadians on this forum. My pride in my heritage is what keeps my feet firm on the ground and my head level.

You cannot respect others until you respect yourself. That advice was given to me when trying to play the dating game but it also applies to racism as well.

[TheGreatest]

Ten Things You Can Do To Fight Prejudice and Racism

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2. Be honest: Recognize your own biases and biases through open discussion with others. Examine your own prejudices, biases, and values. Discuss your own experiences of being hurt by prejudice as well as the ways you have benefitted from discrimination.

Problem! If you did this with ''others'', it might lead to broken nose or imprisonment.
If anything we are discriminated against.



3. Be secure: Explore and find realistic pride in your own group identity. Having a sense of your own background and group identity will help reduce anxiety and defensiveness in relation to others. Knowing your own strengths will also help you to see strengths in others.


Now how does one define realistic? It sounds like they want Europeans to abandon almost all of their identity in order to accommodate the savages.



4. Be a partner: Work on projects with members of groups different from
your own. Working as an equal alongside others from different groups on a common project is one of the best ways to undo prejudice and increase familiarity with others.

I've tried this in the past and it never works.


5. Be an anti-racist parent: Expose your children to diversity at a young age. Children can benefit from knowing other children from different groups at very early ages, before prejudices and biases get in the way of their making contact.

That's what my parents did and they later regretted doing that. Especially if the school is ''non-white'', your child will be ostracized, racially targeted and discriminated, even by the staff.



6. Be a role model: Be vocal in opposing racist views and practices. And don't just criticize, but help educate others about issues and about your own experiences.

Nothing turns me off more than a person who preaches politically correctness like it's the gospel or bible.



7. Be an ally: Support victims of discrimination and prejudice. Offer support on whatever level you can. For example, offer yourself as a mentor for someone in your field of work.

I certainty had no allies growing up in an Asian community.


8. Be an activist: Challenge "top-down" or institutional racism. Work to reduce institutional discrimination and prejudice in government, corporations, the media, and other institutions.

I try to do this. Affirmative action remains one of the most racist examples of institutional racism in society.



9. Be a member: Support anti-prejudice and anti-racist organizations. Following is a partial list of a some organizations or find one that addresses an issue particularly important to you

I remember joining a couple of these groups. But as a White male, I was never accepted and looked upon as having some ulterior motive.


10. Be a teacher: Teach tolerance. Fight prejudice and racism by pro-actively teaching understanding, openess, and conflict resolution skills. (The Teaching Tolerance magazine is one resource for teachers and others to get ideas and resources it is put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
11. Be a student: Educate yourself and others. Reading books, seeing movies, going to hear speakers about the experiences of other groups is an enjoyable way to increase understanding and empathy.


Hah. That's the opposite of what you want to teach. If I was never a student, I would have never learned of the Bolshevik massacre of tens of millions of Eastern and Central Christian Europeans.


This whole idea of political correctness and racism is a farce. A famous quote being: "Anti-Racist is a code word for Anti-White"

[Revenant]

People who are anti racist are usually people who either have a vested interest in it or are ignorant, that is they haven't thoroughly experienced real 'diversity' first hand.

[TheGreatest]

People who are anti racist are usually people who either have a vested interest in it or are ignorant, that is they haven't thoroughly experienced real 'diversity' first hand.

Oh they have but we're talking about Bill Cosby @ 6Pm. :D

It's similar to that show "All in the Family", where the lead was an old racist Irishman who hated Blacks and Jews, but both these people showed nothing but compassion for him.
It these things that went on the television that influenced our parents and current generation of political leaders ~ no wonder we are in a mess...


And our Politicians, the ones who champion these causes, are ironically some of the biggest hypocrites as they have personal transport (sometimes limo), bodyguards, gated communities, private jets... They don't have to sit next to a black or come within 5 feet of one (unless it's Obama, Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell).

[Manifest Destiny]

I believe in self-preservation on both and individual and racial/ethnic levels, but I've never seen the point of the blind hatred of entire groups of people that is normally associated with "racism". That being said...am I the only one who's a bit worried that fighting racism is now seen as an issue of mental health?

We will live to see the day that white racists (and even those white people who simply refuse to buy into "white guilt") are classified as mentally defective by the medical community. :rolleyes2:

EDIT: I browsed that web site and found the list of groups that allegedly fight racism. I'd seriously doubt that any of them would oppose "institutionalized racism" such as affirmative action.

I love a hypocrite.