"You're racist"

When I thought about the question, “Would we approach someone who is racist?” Jay Smooth gives good reasons why you should. I thought his reasons are a reasonable way and yet, respectful way to approach someone who sounded a bit racist. Telling someone they’re racist might not always be a nice conversation. But the way Jay Smooth explains how to do it; it is a way that you may avoid all arguments. I think we should always let someone know when they sound racist and especially if they hurt your feelings with their comment. That’s when Jay Smooth comes in. He shows great ways to tell someone that they sound racist, instead of offending them by calling them something they may not be. That is why I really feel like everybody should watch this video, to get some knowledge about how to talk to someone. But his ideas of approaching people can be for anybody who wants to avoid pointless arguments. They can be for young kids, teenagers, and older adults. For me, the idea of confronting someone who is making racist comments is something important because it is really explaining on how you feel about it and how you may not want that to happen again. I say that you should always tell someone on what they did then what they are. To me, Jay Smooth makes complete sense and you can use his methods of approaching someone with rude comments. It is a way to do it with not only people who say racist comments, but people who say anything rude to you or so something that you don’t technically agree with.

The way Jay Smooth describes the difference between “what you do” and “what you are”, are fairly simple. Let me say the example he gave in the video, if someone snatches your wallet and you chase him, you are not going to talk to him about how he feels about being a thief but instead you are going to tell him what he did and how it wasn’t right of him to do it. Now let’s say if you have a conversation with someone and they start saying something about your kind of people and you tell him, “Oh man, you are racist.” Maybe that person didn’t mean to say that and it accidentally slipped out; you calling him a racist is going to stir things up and he or she is going to start this big argument about you calling him something he is not. Now let’s go back, and imagine this person says something about your kind of people, and you tell him, “Hey man, that wasn’t cool on what you said.” Now you are telling him on what he did instead of accusing him of what he may not be. That gives that person to apologize if it was an accident and he would understand you more on where you are coming from. That is what Jay Smooth is trying to make us understand. This is the right way if you want confront anybody. Because this doesn’t only imply on just racist comments, but on rude comments and any comments that anybody gives you about any topic. It is a way you can approach a teacher, an elder, a parent, or even your boss. Only because this is a respectful way of getting your opinion out about a comment or gesture they did to you. Just always do it without an attitude. Jay Smooth brought a good concept and we, all, should learn this and live by it.