Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

In this week lesson I learn about microaggressions which was very interesting to me. The video enlighten me on many information that I was not aware of. My assignment is to ddescribe at least one example of a microaggression which you detected this week or remember from another time. In what context did the microaggression happen? What did you think and feel when you observed the microaggression or when you found yourself as the target of a microaggression? In what ways did your observation experiences this week affect your perception of the effects of discrimination, prejudice, and/or stereotypes on people? An incident happen at my job where a teacher had a problem with the secretary because she was young and white and the teacher felt that the secretary did not know what she was doing in the office. Just listening to the conversation about how the parents was not getting the right information sent out to the parents in the language where he or she can understand it.  The way the teacher was talking about the secretary made me feel that she was prejudice against the secretary and was not intelligent enough to go and talk to her on the supervisor about the situation. So I talk to the teacher and ask her did she talk to the secretary about the situation if there was a problem with the letters being sent out to the parents. She said know I did not talk to her because she felt that the secretary  should know what she is doing if she is in the office. So the teacher ask me was I taking side I told her I was not taking anyone side it is just common sense if there is a problem you just do not sit around and talk about it to everyone go to that person or the supervisor.

I do not like to see people being discriminated or being prejudice to people at all I feel that everyone should be treated like human being and respected for who he or she are including children as well. I do not look at other nationalities any different then I do African American we are both human being with red blood running in our veins. Everyone should be respected for their race or culture and not be disrespected because the person think there color of race is better than the other. I like to treat people in the way I would want to be treated and respected. So if people watch how he or she conversant with other people and think before he or she speaks I believe no one would be offended from that person.