ABSTRACT
Some years ago I was facilitating a two-day corporate diversity training session in Dallas. During the first day and a half I had talked a lot about institutionalized racism in terms of the differences in daily life experiences. The people of color in the room described situations in which they felt they had been treated differently than they would have been had they been white, for example, being followed around in stores by security guards and salespeople, being routinely stopped by police officers when they hadn’t broken any laws, and so on. Most of the white participants were not buying it; some were more adamant than others that the stories were mere coincidence.
