Microaggressions: Racial Discrimination In Society

Living in a society where you hear racial and discriminative slurs on a daily basis takes its toll on you as a person. Growing up in a society where these microaggressions have become a way of life to some people, constantly living through the discrimination from people that don’t know whether or not they are hurting people psychologically. Seeing how diverse my city is with so many different cultures, religions, colors, and many other aspects that are racially attacked by people on a day to day aspect makes you go prone to these comments, which it shouldn’t be that way. Our children shouldn’t have to grow up thinking that these comments are just a way of life that is allowing them to feel lesser. It’s horrible when you hear children telling …show more content…
These people who are the offenders are usually unaware or maybe they are aware of what they are saying might cause some type discrimination to that person. Derald Wing Sue wrote, “Just before takeoff, the flight attendant, who is white, asked if we would mind moving to the back...We grudgingly complied but felt singled out,” this goes to show that the attendant was discriminating since he had been on plane first before these white men who had gotten on plane after Sue and his friend (African American). Sue addressed the flight on the matter and the flight responded that she didn’t notice color and got offended herself about Sue questioning her action. Goes to show that even though you might have the right to have priority people can just make you seem worthless or just another thing that they can toss around causing you to question your self-worth. These little altercations tend to have a short-term effect on your self-worth due to these microaggressions that get passed up as actually being discriminative to people since people who can do the aggression don’t notice whether or not the person got …show more content…
As Derald expresses the health issues, “They are often made to feel excluded, untrustworthy, second-class citizens, and abnormal,” come with these discrimination happening primarily with people of color causing them to assail on mental health. These health problems such as depression, stress, and many other problems that come with isolation due to how the stereotypes that they hear on a daily basis. All the aggressions against people are causing the group of people to feel trapped by a handful of stereotypes that effects not only their psychological well-being but also their spiritual energies and they chronic fatigue that comes from felling a racial frustration. Derald writes that some research shows that, “research and testimony from people of color indicate they are better able to handle overt, conscious and deliberate acts of racism than the unconscious, subtle and less obvious forms. That is because there is no guesswork involved in overt forms of racism,” people are easily able to deal with these aggressions when they can clearly tell that they are being discriminated racially than just hiding with words that make then think about what that person was actually trying to tell them. It’s a psychological game that words play on person’s mind, not being able to comprehend what the meaning behind the words that are being used to attack them. These constant attacks of