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    Racism is about asserting power and superiority over other races. It involves denying status, authority, and dignity to target races by diminishing their legitimate, knowledge, and informal power. Racism is a pathology that racists feel they cannot control and feel a need to express and validate their beliefs of superiority. Racists use tools like exclusion, intimidation, and diminishing the growth and potential of the target race to assert power over them. An organization can be considered racist if it does not adequately address and punish racism or has racists in top positions of power within the organization.

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    Racism is about asserting power and superiority over other races. It involves denying status, authority, and dignity to target races by diminishing their legitimate, knowledge, and informal power. Racism is a pathology that racists feel they cannot control and feel a need to express and validate their beliefs of superiority. Racists use tools like exclusion, intimidation, and diminishing the growth and potential of the target race to assert power over them. An organization can be considered racist if it does not adequately address and punish racism or has racists in top positions of power within the organization.

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    UNDERSTANDING RACISM (INTELLIGENTLY)

    Elston L Stephenson, OHST


    BLUF

    As Sexual Harassment isn’t about sex,


    it’s about power;
    Racism isn’t about race,
    it’s about power.
    DEFINITION (Principle 1)

    RACISM:
    STATURE + AUTHORITY + DIGNITY
    And Their Denial from the ‘Target Race’

    Particularly when compared to ‘similarly situated’ others


    DEFINITION (Principle 2)

    POWER:
    STATURE + AUTHORITY + DIGNITY
    (3 Types: Legitimate, Knowledge, Informal)

    Asserting ‘superiority’ by diminishing the power (types) of


    the target race is a key feature and ultimate goal of Racism
    Any power by the target race is perceived as a taking away from
    the ‘privileged race’ and a primal stimulus threat
    Principle 3

    Racism is a pathology that


    existentially NEEDS expression and
    validation beyond any control
    The racist can’t help himself. There must be an outlet or outburst.
    Besides, what good is being superior if no one knows about it?
    Exclusion
    RACISM TOOLS
    Diminishing
    • Barriers/Barring Growth/Potential
    • Humiliation
    • Denial of Admission Limiting • Belittling
    • Denial of Invitation • Education • Minimizing
    • Denial of Process • Professional Development • Marginalization
    • Denial of Legitimacy • Economic • Ignoring
    • Segregation • Social • Silencing
    • Political
    Intimidation • Societal
    •
    Erasing
    Hostility • Disparate Treatment
    • Slurs/Epithets • Fraud • Deleting
    • Confrontation • Deceit • Revision
    • Punishment • Non-recognition • Revoking
    • Violence • Pigeon Holing • Protection of Violators
    • Marks (nooses, graffiti, • Stalling • Genocide
    burning crosses, tats) • Undermining
    Definition
    Racist Organization:
    Organization, institution, or culture which does not
    investigate and punish racism sufficient to dis-
    incentivize it and/or has racists at the top of its
    organizational structure
    Thank You

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