Civilize Them With A Stick By Mary Crow Dog: Institutional Racial Discrimination

Racial discrimination still exists in these days with the institutional racism which is described groups of people against certain groups of people to limit their privileges. The United States is a country that has more than one ethnic and everyone is different to each other. In the past, I have seen many groups of people are discriminate to other groups based on their skin color, ethnic and personal identity. Institutional racism happened in school as well as in public. People discriminate others by looking at their skin and their race. People need to adapt to the new world and find out more about others culture to stop the institutional racism toward other races or ethnics. I had experienced in my middle school about the

In the article Civilize Them With A Stick by Mary Crow Dog, she says “ It is almost impossible to explain to a sympathetic white person what a typical old Indian boarding school was like, how it affected the Indian child suddenly dumped into it like a small creature from another world, helpless, defenseless, bewildered, trying desperately and instinctively to survive and sometimes not surviving at all” (p 191).This is basically about how the light skin people have better privileges than the dark skin people. The school principal does not even help Indian students from the bully of white people because all white people are known as wealthy families so the school has to treated white skin better than Indian people. Since Indian people consider as lower class that the school think they don’t deserve the same treatment as white people have. White people can pay for the best service, but Indian people are too poor that they cannot afford the school services. In school, the food for a white person is different than the food for an Indian person. Crow Dog also says “Girls who were near white, who came from what the nuns called “nice families”, got preferential treatment.” (p 196). Many white families are so rich that they can pay for the special services for their children in school without any problem. Because of that, nuns are favored white kids more than other skins. The nuns let other people do the chore while white students don’t need to do anything. White students in that school get more freedom than other students. In the end, the school is being institutional racism to Indian students because they are poor and they don’t have much money like white people