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1. What did Mr. Kofi say that 'spoke' to you?

2. What connections can you make?

3. How do you think we can move forward and be an anti-racist?
As a society? As individuals?

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1. What did Mr. Kofi say that 'spoke' to you?

2. What connections can you make?

3. How do you think we can move forward and be an anti-racist?
As a society? As individuals?

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1. What did Mr. Kofi say that 'spoke' to you?

2. What connections can you make?

3. How do you think we can move forward and be an anti-racist?
As a society? As individuals?

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PART 2: MISCONCEPTIONS

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Mr. Kofi Addressed:

discomfort of engaging in these discussions of anti-racism

often we don't engage; there's complacency

being an anti-racist is life-long

racism takes many forms, such as microaggressions, unconscious biases

judged based on the way we dress

systemic racism is reflected in wealth, income, education, justice, political power and disparities

"We can't always think that racism manifests itself in conscious hate. That's just one way it manifests itself."

"Privilege, access, ignorance, apathy and so are, those are all ways that racism manifests itself."

"You may not realize that it affects you directly, but it does because we are born into a system that perpetuates these ideas that seek to discriminate and marginalize other groups."

"No one is born racist but we're born into a system that perpetuates racism."

"It's kind of like the air you breathe. When you are born, you are forced to breath it."

"You don't have a choice. Whether you like it or not, you're going to have to breath it in. You're going to have to deal with it."

"The challenge is--what do you do about it when you encounter it?

"What do you do about it?"

"Do you speak up?"

"Do you bow your head and cower?"

Do you start questioning who you are?

"These are all things that as individuals when you do experience racism, you start to question."

"Now, you're young, this is the time for you to question these systems. These are systems that should not be in place you're in your thirties or forties and if they are, as humanity, we have truly, honestly failed."

"Because we can't continue as a society like this, right?"

"I truly, honestly believe in the human race, the human race, not the division into a white, black, yellow, no. They are there and they exist and I will not deny that."

"But I truly, honestly believe that we should all see each other as equals and until we do, these systems of inequality, these systems of racism will continue to affect us on a daily basis."

"If you wish to see meaningful change then we, we, we must all be proactive."

"Keeping silent keeps the status quo and not recognizing that these systems of detrimental  to our society makes us complicit in them. "

"First piece of advice...

...BE CONSCIOUS
take a look at the world around you and reflect on how the systems have been built, how do they affect you as an individual.

Have they affected you in a positive or in a negative manner.

Have you been listened to?"

Are you ignored?

Do you speak up for others?

BE CONSCIOUS, BE CONSCIOUS."

"The next thing you need to think about it...

...ACKNOWLEDGE THAT RACISM HAS SHAPED OUR SOCIETIES AND OURSELVES WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT."

"If we internalize some of these harmful messages, what happens to us?

Does it shape our thinking?

Does it change our actions? Whether consciously or unconsciously."

"We cannot ignore the fact that this is an uncomfortable system."

"And we are going to be uncomfortable with it. And I think unless you are uncomfortable with it, you are not experiencing it. Or, you are not interacting with it in a way that you can interact with it."

"Educate yourselves. Do some reading. Try to read authors from different socio-economic backgrounds, cultural backgrounds. It gives you an opportunity to be able to change your view. And if we can, we can support each other."

"Now, how we move with this going forward? I really, honestly do not know. I think that's a question that your generation has to answer?"

"Unfortunately, in a way, my generation has failed your generation because we didn't challenge it as much as we should have. But guess what? I'm challenging you now. More so than I ever did."

"What side of the fence do you sit on? Do you want equality for every one? You want a world where we learn to respect men, women, children regardless of the colour of their skin, regardless of the choice of religion."

"I don't know. These are only questions that you can ponder, you can think about. Then as a group, you have to find solutions."

"It's hard for me to capture everything that I can and my experiences with racism but if you want to find out more or you want to have a discussion, my door is always open. Look me up...send me an email, or come by my classroom or stop me in the hallway to have a quick chat. I'm always open to discussion. Because discussion has got me to the point I am, with who I am and understanding what I am."

"This crusade is more pronounced this year than it ever has been."

"This is not the end of the discussion. The discussion has to continue. That's the only way we can gain an upper hand on racism."

"Good luck with your studies. Good luck with your research. Share your research. That's one way of spreading good information. Share your research."

"And don't be shy to speak. We're all going to make mistakes because it is an uncomfortable topic."

"But I do know that we have the tools and we have the heart to be able to come together and actually have constructive conversations that help us move forward as a society. And I think only then can we move forward and heal."

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What he said  about a society that has failed and failed to comply to the fact that racism is still here and still happening he said we failed to recognize issues that are "mostly" recognized by the black community or peopel that face the same subjects. what spoke to me the most was when he said "discomfort of engaging in these discussions of anti-racism "  i also liked how he said that we arent born racist but racism  could be born in you, but thats if you are actuallly racist.

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What Mr. Kofi said that spoke to me was when he said that when we are in our 30s or 40s, and the system is still the same: (with racism etc) "It is a failure of society".
I think a way we can move forward and be anti-racist as a society is people can keep protesting. Because it still has a powerful impact on different individuals and on society.
I do not have any major connections because the few times I've experienced unconscious bias or micro-aggressions they were mostly small things.

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What spoke out to me was when he said that people fail to realize that racism is still here and happening. I can't make any connections. I think we should start caring about how people feel. And try not to be ignorant.

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the thing that really spoke to me is that he said it does not matter if your skin color is yellow, white or black that we are all the same human being.the world that he said " no one is born racist but we are born into a system racism" this short sentence is really powerful for me.

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What spoke to me is when he talked about how society failed.
I can connect to what he said because it shows how he thinks about it and I sort of think of it the same way
I think to move folward we need to change how education is taught

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What spoke to me about what Mr. Kofi said was when he said, "No one is born racist, everyone is just born into a system that is racist.". I completely agree with the statement and never really noticed or addressed this until he mentioned it which I find is a very interesting perspective to take.

One connection that I made was when Mr. Kofi said, "We can't always think that racism manifests itself in conscious hate. That's just one way it manifests itself...Privilege, access, ignorance, apathy and so are, those are all ways that racism manifests itself." I myself have not encountered a conversation where one has disagreed with this statement but I can connect to it since theses are the building blocks of racism.

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What spoke to me was when he said "No one is born racist but we're born into a system that perpetuates racism." This was very inspirational and I really shows his thinking and I agree  with it a lot.

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Something that spoke to me was when he said that we all have to be proactive. This spoke to me because it is true. If we want to make a change we all have to do something.

I think that I can now make connections between what you can do to stop racism and to prevent other people from getting hurt

I think as mr.Kofi said we have to be work together to move forward as a community and as individuals because if no one condieres or does anything nothing will change.

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1. That there are systems that  are working to end racism but aren't there yet.  Also that if racism stays till we are 30 that the government has failed us which I think is very true.
2. I don't really have any connections to the situation.
3. I think we can move forward as a society and abolish racism if we work with the government. If we keep peacfuly protesting then we can get there.

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1. What spoke to me about Mr. Kofi's video was that even though racism is a serious and dehumanizing topic, he truthfully explained and guided us through his point of view and his ideas on how to interact with racism and its devastating effects. Also what spoke to me was that he stated that racism shapes our minds, how we act and, our societies's ambitions, we need to be alert on how to start resolving racism (person by person).
2. I can't connect since I have never experienced such racism, but all I know from living in Senegal, is that "on est ensemble" and that is how we need to react and move forward when dealing with racism and inequality. Country by country, we can change opinions and we can create a force, a community or a family READY to act as an opponent against racism. All we need to keep in mind is that some people are born into racism and madness and without being cautious, we could get seriously hurt and menaced, because racism takes several forms, some are more mild but then there are some that change the identity of individuals so much that they're ready to harm people that stand in their way.
3. We can start by including everyone in communities around the world, regardless of their background, their, race, their culture, their sex, their sexual identity, etc... It might seem easy but all the habitual and daily scenarios we have created are hard to reverse. Some people are too hurt to even talk about racism because of the actions we took towards racism. We all need to move forward with acceptance, with respect, with effort to make the world a better place and as a family, because without family, what are we really?

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1 what spoke to me was when he said that racism can be shown in many forms and also what spoke to me was when he said that you can be born into a system that makes you a racist.
2. The connections that I have is to the Apartheid so that when  he says that you are born into a society then you become a racist you are either born black or white or of colour and so then in the apartheid then you will be separated by the way you look.
3. The ways we can move forward is to compliment people and not drag people down and show the world that whatever way you are born we are all the same and should be treated equally.

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what spoke to me is when ms kofi was explaining that racism is a  serious problem . i cant make connection . to eliminate racism we can educate our generation and stop judging people and be kind to other not matter their races, skin color

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What he spoke to me is in racism, there are many forms are there. and if we want to change it, we need to do something together.

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1. It spoke to me that he recognized that the older generations could not resolve this issue. Through the emotion enveloping his words, we can see how strongly he feels on 'systematic racism'.

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1. Mr. Kofi talked about how his generation failed to eliminate racism. He also talked about how no one is born racist, but we are born into a system that is perpetuated by racism, and itself in turn perpetuate racist ideology. It is like the air that we inevitably inhale; it is what we do with it that matters.
2.  There is a saying that when we are first born, we are initially kind and open-minded. This connects to Mr. Kofi talking about how racism is not inherited in one's mind upon being born.
3. We can learn about racism as individuals, doing research about it, and as a society, we should spread awareness and actively remind ourselves and others to be anti-racists and together to disintegrate the racist ideology, the stereotypes in our minds and in society that relies upon systemic racism.

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When he said that the conversation wasn't over at the end because this really isn't a topic that should be closed. I think to move forward as a community, we have to be able to discipline both staff and students when racist acts are performed.

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What spoke to me is that he is telling us what he felt when he went through racism. He is telling us how horrible is racism, how much it can hurt so many people.
People might not

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I think what spoke to me was how he said that no one is born into racism. And how someone is sort of born into these systems of racism and the only thing we can do about it is to speak up and fight back.
I think there will be people who still don't think that everyone deserves equal rights, and that's how it is. It's just important that mostly everyone understands the importance of equality, and then we can move forward as an anti-racist society. I think it would be very hard to just make racism disappear since it has been going on for such a long time, and I think that many people believe that racism has/is part of life and it has to be this way, which is not true I just think it will be hard for everyone to understand that.

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1. What spoke to me was Mr. Kofi's words. How he said at the end "don't be shy to speak" me as a shy person that sentence really made me think of lots of things.

2. And a  example from my connection, current discrimination such as BLM. I felt desperately that we need to speak up as a human. A human that doesn't crumble.
And while watching this video I felt so despaired how this tragic racism is still continuing and that some people still have implicit bias against people who even knows about their behavior. Which made me so despair.

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Something that Mr Kofi said that spoke to me was when he said that "No on e was born racist but we are born into a system of racism". It spoke to me because he is true and I think if we could delete that system of racism , then the amount of racist acts and people wouldn't increase.

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What spoke to me is that racism formed our community and how we live today. But also the unfairness it is. That people fight for racism to stop but people are still racist today. Even me sometimes I wonder why people hate different skin colored people. They are the same just their skin color matters to them. I can't explain why people think like that since we are all the same and think the same way we all humans.

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I thought that it was really inspiring, the more I heard the more he made me think and wonder myself and he society, I agree with the term he said no one is born racist but we're born into a system that perpetuates racism. We also heard him while doing I & S and I really think it is an addition to what we have done before.

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Our generation is the last chance. That is what spoke to me. We are the only ones that have the strong minds, bodies and souls to carry on what everyone else couldn't. To stop racism WE as kids, at least for right now, have the power of so many voices to CHANGE racism over the world for good.

I have also experienced racism. it was over summer break and my mom, brother, aunt and I were trying to find a good restaurant to eat in. we walked through the door and immediately the owner saw us - mixed skin colour - and told us they can only do takeaway for us even though when we peeked through the hallway almost all the tables were empty. on top of it one of the waitresses told us " I do not know why he said that because we have all the space in the world for your group to sit" she was them knocked down with the words from the owner "oh do not mind her, she doesn't know anything."

To move forward we should change how education is taught to us and how the educational system fixes our minds on one idea and doesn't incorporate any others.

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What spoke to me was that racism can be very big and large because it is in so many places concealed very deeply in different places, for example microaggressions.

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That we all need to go against it together.

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I think he what he said has very inspiring. I say that he was involving us in the conversation as well as himself. He also said that his generation didn't really do as much as our generation did to stop racism. I like how he said there can be multiple forms of racism like watching and condoning, microaggression and well... aggression. We talked about how he didn't want it to be divided and that we should all just be the HUMAN race instead of being divided into categories. Obviously you can see the different colors but it really doesn't matter.

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Something that spoke to me was when he said that we all have to be proactive and this is true if we want to  make changes we have to be a part of it .
The connections between is just to stop it before more people get hurt the same way.
Something that we can do is to work together and move forward together as a whole group

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1. What Mr. Kofi said that really spoke to me was that you are not born into racism, but rather you adopt it.
2. I think it is that in general, there has always been discrimination between the human race, even before Europeans found out about Africans or vice versa. And that the general population will probably always discriminate something, as throughout history we can see it is in our nature. But we can minimize this discrimination by exposing younger people too little to no discrimination at all.
3. Like I said before, there will always be at least a little bit of discrimination in a human society unless we change our nature completely. I think that in order to minimize racism we should develop environments where impressionable children are not exposed to racism, or learn about it in order to spot it and fight against it.

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When he said "Privilege, access, ignorance, apathy and so are, those are all ways that racism manifests itself." That spoke to me because racism can manifest itself in many different forms which are not necessarily obvious.

We can move forward by doing research about unconscious racism and spread awareness.

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1. The thing that spoke to me is when he explain that there is so many form of racism, and when he said. " we can't always think that racism manifests itself in conscious hate. That's just one way it manifests itself" that really spoke to me
I don't really have connection with somethings
3. maybe get to know each other or be more open mind

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1. What spoke to me was that he said that no-one was born into racism and how his generation failed to erase racism and he would like us to give it a try for him/with him. He mentions that no-one is born in racism but racism is born in you. You can decide whether you are racist or not: I think that's what he means.
2. I don't have any connections to what he said but I totally agree with him. I think his words should be taken seriously and should prove to us that there is still a way of eliminating racism if we all put our minds to it.
3. I think that to move forward, we should compliment people instead of bringing them down. We should also show people that whatever happens, we are all humans and we should not be separated in 2 groups.

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what he said that spoke to me was that rasicim was kinda there for a long time and it changed and impacted the way we live now, and that no one is born rascit, but the system is rasict so it makes us sometimes rascit

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1. Something that Mr. Kofi said that spoke to me is that he said that people arent born racist, but it is like if they are born into racist air that they cannot accept. So when you see someone that is racist, it is what they have been told and what people had educated that person with.
2. Connections i can make is how systemic racism is reflected in wealth, income, and education.
3.  A way we cna move forward is that we can work together to bring the society to an equal state, and try to get a way from the background you were taught and adapt to the world and its changes.

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what spoke to me was when he apologized to our generation for what they did, and how he hopes our generation can fix this.

i think we can move forward by stop discriminating

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when he said no one is born racist it spoke to me alot because it's true

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I like when Mr. Kofi said that people aren't born racist because that really spoke to me. It shows how this society works and brings people in the mindset of racism against coloured people is ok.

I hope that this society can become anti racist, but we have to depend that on people's biases and stereotypes.

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What spoke to me is that for more than years and years we have been fighting against this crisis, but the generation that Mr. Kofi is in has failed, and so it is his turn to challenge us so we can make a difference in the world.

In addition some connections that I made were when Mr. Kofi talked about judgments, because in my old school various people were judged the way they dressed, and so I believe that this sort of a moment that is relatable.

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he was very open in doing this video and I think that that is very courageous of him and it really spoke to me that he was really good at making us realise the amount of pain that comes with racism. he also said that racism has been happening for way longer than we realise

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Everything he has said has spoke to me but especially when he said "No one is born racist but we're born into a system that perpetuates racism". I strongly agree with this statement.

Not really a connection, and I think this was told from other teachers too, but we really need to do something and make an action to go against racism.