Sister Aurora Tovar
Racism surges when a person carries a conviction or attitude where others are excluded, ridiculed, treated badly and discriminated against unjustly. Racist actions are damaging because they violate the justice and respect of people. Discrimination happens in many forms, for example, not having a dignified home, not having sufficient space for each person or, also, when people do not have a sufficient salary and therein they will not be able to start and finish their studies or the studies of their children. A dignified salary and work for all creates justice.
In the area of health, racism means that the system is such that people cannot get the necessary attention they need to improve their health and purchase their medications. In the area of communication media, the internet manipulates messages in the interests of those who support with finances and then carry their message. Consumers in our society produce and create ideas and needs through their messages that influence and establish something to their benefit.
Immigrants experience discrimination when they are treated as if someone is superior than they are or when they are made to feel inferior. White privilege is a message given when a distinction is made between persons who are white and persons of another color. An example of this is when a white person is seen as more beautiful or more intelligent.
The color of the person or the way they dress readily pretends to make another less. There surges a feeling of not being privileged or delinquent in their manner of being. The privileges that many of us have are different than persons with few resources, this is understood as racism. There are many forms of racism that we consciously or unconsciously realize—they might be cultural, institutional or in regard to the color of our skin.
