SPCL 7922 Multicultural Counseling and Consultation (Elizalde-Utnick): Session 3 - Module 3: Privilege, Oppression, & Social Justice

“You are a credit to your race.”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.

[White Professor to Latina student during class] “What do Latinas think about this situation?”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.

[To a woman with a headscarf] “What are you hiding in there?” / [Store manager to employees] “Keep an eye on the Black shoppers.”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.

“Can I touch your hair? You look so exotic.”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.

“I don’t see color.” / “The only race is the human race.”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.

[To an Asian student] “Can you help me with my math homework?”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.

[A White woman to a Black woman] “As a woman, I understand what you experience as a minority.”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.

“ANYONE can succeed if you try hard enough.”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.

“Why are all Black women so loud?”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.

“You don’t even seem Black.”

1. Your identity or experience as a person of color is invalid. / Your experiences as a minority are no different from anyone else’s.
2. I can’t be racist, because I’m oppressed like you.
3. Your appearance dictates your skills or knowledge.
4. People from your group are more likely to be criminals or terrorists.
5. Everyone from your group acts or think the same. / Your experiences are interchangeable with anyone else in your group.
6. I am not racist.
7. I don’t expect people from your racial background to be intelligent or successful, but you are.
8. You don’t look like you belong here.
9. You don’t fit my stereotypes about your racial group.