I really think that we have to begin creating a large anti-racist community by evaluating our own selves first. What are our real thoughts on race? Especially those we are afraid to confront or our political persuasions tell us we aren't. We have to realize that there is always room for improvement and that at our core, we always have corrections to make. I think if we are first able to make ourselves uncomfortable for the sake of improving our ability to create change, it is a discomfort that we must make room for.
I agree with you Rachel when you stated, "I really think that we have to begin creating a large anti-racist community by evaluating our own selves first." I believe the first step in becoming anti-rasicst is taking this course. I think many of us would agree that the individuals are taking this course because they want to be educated about race and ethnicity. To the people in class, ethnicity and race is an important subject. One that is important enough to expand and create new information. I also think a crucial step to becoming an anti-racist is for people in this class to not let what we learned in class just stay in the four walls of the classroom. We need to take every thing that we have learned and apply to our lives outside in the real world. That is when we can truly become an anti-racist community.
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