Practicing
Awareness of Microaggression
While I have
faced many racial injustices in my life I never quite knew the name for it. This
week I finally was able to get a name to the injustices I faced my whole entire
life. However, while I got this new discovery I also learned a lot about myself
in regarding microaggression. While I receive it many times, I also have
discovered that I too have delivered racial microaggression to others. And like
those, I never meant any harm, I may even have said things as a combat to my
own dealings, no matter the reason, it is all wrong and we need to treat each
other better.
As I started
a new job, I knew people were going to try to get to know me better but not
know just how to ask really how to do that, thus resulting in the
microaggression. I just wish that in many times we would ask or say what we
meant without having to get all politically correct or such. I think that if we
did this it would/could make life easier. I really hate all the footing around
the things we really want to know. In a time like now, if you have a problem
with my perfect English, or confused by the way I look and sound then you are
living in the wrong era. Many countries come from the United States of America
now. In a way and this may be sad, but I wished I lived overseas again. Things were
easier and better to be an American in another country. There is was an
American. I did face the same racial microaggressions but never to the same
magnitude as I do living in the United States.
One thing I
have learned about Microaggression from Dr. Gerald Wing Sue is that “microaggression
is really from the perspective of the recipient. That person really does take
on the burden of interpretation.” (Laureate Education, (2011). I guess if I am
not offended that it isn’t offensive. However, I don’t think that I should stop
feeling offended but may be not everyone is trying to offend me is what I should
be thinking instead.
Laureate Education (Producer). (2011). Microaggressions
in everyday life [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteI never knew the exact name for it either! It's nice to have a name to tie to the behavior. I love that you mentioned the political correct approach when people are trying to get to know you. It would be so much easier if we were all direct in our approach to get to know each other.