serenehelene:

daniellemertina:

thegoddamazon:

Look, I’m going to explain this as clearly as possible.

The exercise was to teach white people/white passing people about the daily racism that POC face by putting them in a position to be discriminated against constantly. This was the point of the “A Class Divided” exercise.

Now, these students were all required to sign waivers saying that they would undergo high emotional stress from the exercise. They signed knowing that they were going into a situation that would stress them out.

As the exercise continues, after barely thirty minutes of being discriminated against, two white women have burst into tears, one of which stormed out and never came back. Elliot goes on to make the point that when people of color are in these situations where they’re fed up…WE DON’T HAVE THE OPTION TO STORM OUT AND NEVER COME BACK. For most of us, leaving could mean the difference between having a job or keeping a job and continuously facing racism/sexism/homophobia. Since the discrimination this exercise is dealing with race, I’m going to focus on that. For most of us, leaving could mean federal prison—I’m in the military, one of the biggest cesspools for all kinds of discrimination in human history. I face sexism and racism everyday, and you know what? After 23 years of facing racism and sexism, you learn to swallow the poison.

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This is the exercise that @thegoddamazon mentioned in the original post, in case anyone is curious.

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