I attended the Social Justice Event with the guest speaker Shirley Wilcher who is the Executive Director of the American Association for Access. She is an activist for Affirmative Action. During this event, she gave us history and background information about Affirmative Action. She even told us personal stories about her experience with race and being a woman of color.
Affirmative action is the support of people in the same group who lack an advantage of obtaining success due to their culture.
During this event, Shirley Wilcher shared a personal story about her experience with racism. She is a very successful woman of color who has had many accomplishments in her life. Sadly, she still gets judged by the color of her skin. She was trying to grab a taxi on the side of the road and when she went to get in, the driver drove away. She had not done anything wrong, but because of the color of her skin, it did not matter how successful she was and her social and economic status.
This topic reminded me of 3 course readings: -White Privilege
- S.C.W.A.M.P
- Indian's Father's Plea
It had to do with white dominance in today's society. One example of Affirmative Action is to prevent the white culture to feel that can over power other races and their success for the future. Affirmative Action is not just about race. It is about any culture or group of people who are different from the "norm" of today. This can be an example of the LGBTQ community. Here are 3 links that connect and better explain Affirmative Action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saIVafSC38k
http://www.understandingprejudice.org/readroom/articles/affirm.htm
http://www.civilrights.org/resources/civilrights101/affirmaction.html
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