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1 Using Social Justice and Understanding Bias NaTasha Nesbitt Department of Business, Southern New Hampshire University IDS-105-14212-M01 Awareness & Online Learning Professor Kristi Arford May 12,2024

2 Using Social Justice and Understanding Bias Lesson, one challenged me to dive deeper into myself and discover my identity “the concept of who we are” Martin and Nakayama (2022). However, I must admit that I did not grasp the knowledge of how identities, unconscious or implicit bias, and core principles of social justice define us all. After much research I discovered that my most dominant social identities are age and race. In recent years my age bothers me because the reality is we all are getting older and may or may not feel as if we can do things we used to do. I can recall a time when I was told that I did not qualify for a role in a play because of my age. I remember feeling sad that I was getting old. Now that I am aware that social justice plays a role in our everyday life, I can categorize this incident under diversity because of age. Discrimination regarding age was not something I thought I would ever have to experience. The next dominant social identities I identify with is race, this has been an issue my entire life. There have been times when I or my family have entered places and immediately was overlooked for service.” In fact, people tend to remember information that supports a stereotype but may not retain information that contradicts it” (Hamilton, Sherman, & Ruvolo,1990). Dealing with stereotypes from other races that never took the time to get to know me but instead assumed that all people of color act the same was disappointing. From these experiences I now understand the core principles of social justice and how they control our identities. Access to resources, equity, participation, diversity, and human rights are the core principles of social justice. If we are honest every culture in one way or another has been impacted weather good or bad from these principles. From a personal perspective, implicit bias disturbs my understanding because I am now aware that social justice principles really affect my everyday life. My personal experience with implicit bias was being

3 raised as a child and taught that animals belong outside. So, when growing up and visiting someone’s home if there was a pet inside, we unconsciously believe the homes were not clean. In my adulthood I realized this was not true and just an assumption by parents made. Implicit bias impacted my understanding of participation in the core principles of social justice. I worked as the only African American in my department and I was never allowed to give input. I can also recall feeling unseen and never heard just to say the least. In addition, despite doing my job my supervisor would still find ways that cause me to feel as if I didn’t do enough. After having a conversation with her she explained her assumption was that people of color do not like to work. Now that I am more knowledgeable, I understand unconscious bias made her assume this awful way of thinking. Thankfully I had the opportunity to educate her and show her through my actions how that was a false narrative. In conclusion, our world is made up of many kinds of cultures, and no one is better than the others. We must find a way to respect each other to make life easy for us all.

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