Watch the two videos in the course schedule. I have also included them below.
In your discussion post, first, reflect on the privileges (as defined in the readings/video) you experience and how they impact your lived experience. Next, share an experience you have had with microaggressions. After you reflect on both the ways you have experience systemic privilege and microaggressions, reflect on what you can do differently to use your privilege in service of others, and reduce microaggressions.
For example, I experience white privilege. This gives me access to all sorts of things – more safety than people of color, access to loans and credit, the ability to walk through a store and not be followed. I have also experienced microaggressions because I am a woman – when I have been in leadership positions I have been called a “bitch” for enforcing guidelines that men have enforced before me and people just followed. One way I use my white privilege in service is of others is when I have been at Black Lives Matter protests and white people are asked to come to the front because our bodies are less likely to be brutalized by police. I put my body between those of my black comrades and the police to serve as a barrier or obstacle. This is just a brief example – you can expand in yours and give more details and multiple examples.
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