Vocabulary
“Criminal offence against a person or property motivated by bias against race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, or disability.” (USA Today Video @ 0:18)
What is Hate Crime?
“…the idea that if some racial/ethnic groups experience systemic disadvantage, there is a group that is advantaged by this very same system.” (Fitzgerald 36)
What is Race Privilege?
“...the rights, benefits, and advantages enjoyed by white persons, or the immunity granted to whites that is not granted to people of color; white privilege exempts white people from certain liabilities others are burdened with.” (Fitzgerald 38)
What is White Privilege?
The guilt assigned to every individual in a group after one/a few memember/s of the group perform a crime. (Fitzgerald 35)
The emotion felt by individuals that belong to the associated group of a criminal (only felt in subordinate communities). (Fitzgerald 35)
“…The way white people become highly uncomfortable in conversations about race and where the smallest amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggers discomfort and anxiety and can result in anger, silence, withdrawal, and augmentation." (Fitzgerald 47)
What is White Fragility?