Let’s start eradicating the racism...one word at a time

Senator Cory Booker has brought a bill in Congress to change policing in the country by not only proposing some common sense laws but also funding policing appropriately to invest the remaining funds to improve the Black neighborhoods and Black young populations. Let’s support that bill. We would need more to it but this is the immediate “antibiotic” that the nation need. It needs more wholesome change in the country by empowering Black population economically through reforming the education system - by essentially demolishing the “structural & systemic” segregation of education system.

While the macro level changes are brought to the nation, let’s also change the microcosm of our cultural biases - the "unconscious" racism where we unknowingly use racially toxic words in our everyday conversation. We always talk about problems. Today, let's talk about solution. Let's change our "carefully" ignored racially intoxicated words and phrases from our day to day life to eradicate racism from our society. One word at a time. Here's the one liner rule to start with:

 "The words that we use to denote a fellow human, in our everyday conversation, stop using those words to imply or suggest a thing or an idea that is used implicitly or explicitly for anything bad, evil or harmful...and the other way around".

For instance, we use these words to imply bad thing: Blacklist, Blackmarket, Blackheart, Blackmail, Blackout.

On the contrary, we use the opposite phrases to imply good thing: such as, Whitelist, White lie, etc.

Using such expressions we don’t just create wrong association to the people who are identified as black, but we also help continuing the legacy of our racial unconscious biases through our next generations to come.

Let’s start eradicating the racism...one word at a time.

Note: There will be some people who would knowingly use those words- they are the racially biased bigots. Let's clean the rest of our souls who unknowingly used to use those phrases.