Awareness

When you in room let’s say during a business meeting. You know your field is over saturated with a prominently white presence, yet you wonder and hope as you walk in that room you’re not the only minority. Just a slim chance that you’re not the only minority sitting in that room, maybe someone is of mixed race.

You fix your gaze, adjust any wrinkles on your outfit, and put on the hey nice to meet you pal I’m Mei not like the month haha face. You’re inside and yet again you’re the only minority.

Should you feel empowered being a female and a minority or is it more like oh there she is the minority. Pretty awkward feeling when you know society is still pushing gender and race at you. Where I’m going at with this post is not the fact that Mei should feel awkward because she is the only minority. She is aware that because race and gender prejudice still exists.

The uncomfortable feeling in her stomach and the hope of another minority in the room is from the deep- seatedness of racism and the gender inequality at large. Not to say that the whites in the room are racist but the fact that this minority majority feeling still lingers into our mentality. It still very much shows during this meeting where Mei is still the only minority.

To solidify this on a larger platform. This weekend, Brett Kavanaugh has secured his seat on the Supreme Court. Another white made in another large governing portion in the USA. Not a women or a minority or both but another male with a much elicit past. That feeling is similar to Mei’s, another uncomfortable white club where a minority is not picked or just passed up again. This is the society we know and the uncomfortable feeling that Mei or many minorities know all too well. She is another minority that somehow ended up in a meeting or a company that decided to give her an opportunity but yet during a circle of people, it clearly shows who’s she is surrounded by.