The following blog post is the result of dialogue and collaboration by Theresa McLeod-Treadwell, Dorothy Sidhu, and I.
Racism is nothing than the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics particular to that specific race, distinguishing those races as inferior or superior to others. Racism is a form of stereotyping.
In the mid-1990s, the Internet was lauded for its potential to usher in a colour-blind society. As the medium proliferated, scholars argued it could eliminate racial cues from communication and lead to a more egalitarian electronic global village, where there would be no race, gender or infirmities (Ess, 2001; Negroponte, 1995) (as cited in Tynes et al., 2014, p. 2)
The internet and different digital environments offered a new platform where people can express themselves and experience racism. Online racism is like offline racism, just on a different platform, with wider and way larger audience (Tynes et al., 2014).
Please read the full post on Dorothy’s blog.
‘I look to a day when people will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.’
Martin Luther King
Featured image credit: Oliviero Toscani, 1997