Deciding to do nothing by sitting on one’s anger is one response to racial microaggressions that occurs frequently among students of color. According to Clark & Clark (2009) some explanations for this nonresponse behavior are (1) unable to determine whether a microaggression has occurred, (2) at a loss for how to respond, (3) fearful of the consequences, (4) rationalizing that “it won’t do any good anyway,” or (5) engaging in self-deception through denial (“It didn’t happen”).
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