People of Color Vignette #3
(no race or ethnic group specified)

In a women’s support group there are five white women and one woman of color, Rita, who is part black and part Latina.  The facilitator is also white. During the third group meeting Rita talks about the difficulty she and her husband are having getting a mortgage to buy a house.  She explains that a white couple she knows who have a similar financial situation were given a mortgage by the same bank the month before.

Jennifer, a younger group member, quickly interjects   “I know just what you’re talking about.  Me and my friend got turned down for an apartment the other day and it had to be cuz of our piercings.  It’s pretty much the same thing - discrimination plain and simple.”  The facilitator turns to Rita: “Rita, what do you think of what Jennifer just said?”

Questions for the reader:  As a person of color, how might Rita
feel about Jennifer's statement that the two discrimations are the same?
If you were the facilitator how would you have responded?

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