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The next definition
I want to bring up
and you've heard me say this in
other segments is structural racism.
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And before I go
into the definition,
I want to say that
there are still people
who don't believe that
structural racism is real.
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And so part of this work is
to bring people to a space
where we acknowledge
the reality of facts.
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So the definition is
that it's a system
in which public policies,
think about those public policies,
we mean from the
federal government level,
state governments, city
governments, within organizations,
institutional practices,
as well as institutional policies,
cultural representations
and other norms
that reinforce ways to
perpetuate racial group identity
and also to marginalize people
and to maintain power structures
at different levels for
different sets of people
based on many different dynamics.
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So consider this an
example for discussion is
how did structural
racism come to be?
Let's think about the Constitution.
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Let's think about when the
Constitution was written.
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Let's think about who
it was written by.
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Let's think about how it does
empower certain people
and give certain people advantages.
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Consider how it
disempower certain people
and give certain
people or not gives but
put certain people
at a disadvantage.
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So those are some things to
consider when we talk about
structural racism,
and then all the corollaries
of that structural racism
and how that has continued
to be an issue over many centuries.
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So until we again can name and
acknowledge that this is real,
then we can't move forward in
the process of transformation.
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That doesn't mean that
we're all going to agree.
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We do have to agree to
disagree in certain areas.
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And think about it again from
a humanitarian perspective.
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And how do we put people at the
same place at the starting line.
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And how we finish,
we can't necessarily control
but if I have, or we all have
an equal starting space,
we start at the same place.
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And the rules are the same for
everybody who's participating
and we don't want to call it a game
but this life situation.
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And in terms of work,
in terms of school,
in terms of all of our ways
that we exist.
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If we have all the same rules
and all the starting place,
same starting places.
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we do have the potential
to reach a space of equity.