Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Blog #4 Why this MATTERS

Saturday night I was hanging out with my older brother, Michael. He's 28 and works as a graphic designer and he is also one of my absolute best friends. Anyways, we got to talking about the particular topic of why race matters (because I brought it up in conversation since we are learning so much I just HAD to share it with him too). And my brother's first response to me was, "Isn't that a subject that is still just too sensitive?"

And he was right. Of course its a sensitive subject, but the more we talk about it, the less "sensitive" it will be! AND THAT'S WHY THIS MATTERS!

He was very interested in knowing about micro aggression, in which I then proceeded to tell him about the twitter hashtag and to check it out cause we have some good stuff under there. A little class promotion never hurt, right?

We began talking about micro aggression that we have experienced in our life (which is only a small amount compared to other stories that I have heard) and his response to THAT was that he always considered those kind of remarks as racist and never saw the "micro" in it.

We were at Chevys, which in case you were wondering is not as good as Jose Tejas. My brother and I love Mexican food and he often makes it a lot at home too. A few weeks ago some of his friends were over his place and they said it smelled like Mexican food and he told them he has just cooked some really good tacos and one of his friends said something like. "Oh you must be Spanish." For cooking tacos. Damn, what does it take to be considered American then? Having a house that smells like McDonalds? I just don't get it...

I was happy to inform at least one person of this topic. Imagine what it would be like to inform MILLIONS. We need to make it a topic that people aren't afraid to talk about.

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