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Re: White Perspectives on Racism in FIRST
Limiting to three years of mentoring one team and a bit over a dozen inter-team events, mostly FLL and FRC:
Institutional racism in FIRST, including events, teams, and sponsors: nothing to report.
Individual (face-to-face) racism in FIRST: very few incidents, none violent, none initially involving more than four individuals, and other participants in the event/team quickly made it clear that the behavior was unacceptable; I can't think of any that had to be brought to the attention of event organizers. One offender quit the team, though I don't know if this was the reason. The others corrected their behavior, at least as long as I was witness. One was between two minorities, the others were split as to whether the majority or minority race was the offender.
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