Real Talk... Race Real Talk with Teens

There are taboo subjects that we are not able to really discuss because it is not the norm, but time for silence is over we need to understand the impacts of race and the double standards that exist so prevalently in our society. In this discussion we discuss how race in our society has become used in a way to make distinctions and seperations between us from discrimination, harrasment, representation in media, and healthcare. The melanin in our skin should not be the determining factor for how someone perceives an individual to be or to use stereotypes to categorize individuals by placing them in boxes and under labels. There are struggles suffered unfortunately due to skin tone when we should be uplifting one another and working towards positive progress and real change to address the inequility