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Defining Racism

In this clip, two Black students define racism. Both students have a very similar definition as they both identify racism as discriminating against a group of people because of their race. One of the students provides an anecdote of a time in which they experienced racism in their high school and faced discrimination from a teacher. They describe how devastating that experience was and how they handled it, offering listeners and other teachers advice on how to have these conversations in the future and be better advocates for their students of color.

Discriminate a group of people based on their race