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Sunday, June 16, 2013

The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression


One memory I have is this one incident where a group of my coworkers and I were socializing, and someone burst out asking why do black people love fried chicken. I found that to be very disurbing. I angrily replied that all blacks don’t like chicken. My grandfather for example is one. I have never seen him eat a piece of chicken.

I was a bit upset because I felt attacked out of the entire group. She made an assumption on what  she thought blacks liked. Once I gained control of my feelings I realized that she didn’t mean any harm. She was curious to know what was so special about friend chicken.

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