Adultification Bias

Take aways:

-Young black girls are seen as less innocent.

-Need less nurturing.

-Need less support.

-Need less protection.

-Need less comforting.

-Are not worthy of second chances.

-More likely to have more punishment.

From the video, three stereotypes that young black girls are labeled with are being loud, aggressive, and threatening. These stereotypes paint these girls in negative lights, spreading misconceptions about them across the board to other groups of people. Why should young black girls be seen first with stereotypes before interacting or getting to know them, its wrong.  I do not recall very many instances where I have personally felt prejudice, I do remember feeling out of place though. I spent many summers at my aunts house in Richmond, RI.  The population there was predominantly white, there was one black family who lived around the black but their kids were very young.  I was the only brown kid in that neighborhood and at times i felt out of place, especially with nick names like "midnight" since I get much darker in the summer time. At the time  things like this did not stand out too much for me, it was not until i got older that i realized how damaging words can be since at the same time people would comment on me sounding or acting "white." I definitely experienced confusion growing up as to where I belonged. My mother and her family are white, and my father and his family are hispanic, and since I did not grow up with my dad in the picture or his family for that matter I had no connection to the language, culture, customs, etc.  There was a disconnect matching how I grew up to how I look. So at some point i would feel slightly uncomfortable being the only brown person in the room, or even feeling out of place around many hispanic people too.