Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

This week I was at the park and over heard a group of teenagers talking.  They were using names talking about themselves.  I felt this was a mircoaggression something as an insult for me to hear people of color referring to each other as a “Nigger” instead of their birth name.

One microaggression I remember seeing more times than I would really want to say is how young black males get on to the elevator and white women start to clutch their purses.  Another micro- aggression happened when I was walking down the street with my son’s and white women started to cross the street to the other side.

I felt embarrass for the young because it was clear that they wear unaware of the meaning of our usage of the word.  

My observation experience this week affects my perception that Racism is subjective in that to the assumption that the word “Nigger” is bad does not include a sarcastic banter between two black friends.