Wow! I have been at the post office and there have been times when a white person or persons would wait until I walk into the post office and return to my vehicle before they would exit their cars since Convid-19 started. Today, I was returning home riding through a small country town, and this white police officer followed behind me for a while. I am thinking what have I done because I am driving the speed limit, and what I am going to do, or how I am going to react if this policeman pull me over with all that is going on right now.
I have learn not to react to racial comments or actions unless they become threatening to me or the people around me. I think what I would do with the students and their families is to do a role with persona dolls where I will play out the experience with them, and I would ask them how would they have reacted and what would you have done to try to diffuse the situation. I would use the persona dolls to help the students, and I would have different persona dolls of the different races and persona dolls of different jobs such as policemen/women.
I know that I must keep my personal bias to myself, and I must show my students and their family members how to deal positive with racism that I have experience. The post office experience where I would teach them that you can not control other people reactions or feelings towards you, but you can control you feelings and reactions towards them. I have come to know that sometimes no reaction or to walk away is the answer to a situation. I would ask the family members to describe some of their experiences with racism and how they dwelt with it. I will ask them how have they taught their children to deal with racism.
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