Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions

 The microaggression I read about was an article online Professional Black Women Wrongly Accused of Prostitution event occurred in a New York at a Standard Hotel in Manhattan’s fashionable Meatpacking District. There were three professional African American ladies going to enjoy an evening drink and conversation. They were the only African American ladies in the restaurant.  They were approached at different times by several mean offering to buy them a drink. A security guard approached the group whispered something in the man’s ear and he walked away. Her then approached the ladies and replied to the ladies ‘Come on, ladies. You can buy a drink but you can’t be soliciting (Van Buren, 2014)

 

This is a clear example of racial microaggression because this was clearly discrimination, and stereotyping people for the race by the dominant power culture of the people associated with this establishment. The guard whispering something to one of the men that approached the ladies and him leaving only add fire of discrimination being experience by the three ladies.  The guard accusing them of prostitution and the responds from hotel manager over their treatment, and were met with indifference. They never received an apology but were offered a free meal and champagne. There was no true resolution to this horrible experience for three economical sufficient African American professionals. Situations like this case of racial microaggression has being experienced by people of different cultures for a longtime and until society learn to respect and become an anti-bias society we will have these challenges for time to come.

 You can read this article at: http://latest.com/2014/09/three-professional-black-women-wrongly-accused-prostitution/#!