Dr. Skinner-Dorkenoo is an assistant professor at the University of Georgia. Dr. Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo discusses her article, "How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States." She defines what microaggressions are and how they support White superiority. Through subtle and slight processes microaggressions protect and reinforce the "othering" of people of color with environmental exclusions, treating people of color as second class, and promoting ideas of inequalities. Dr. Skinner-Dorkenoo discusses how "color blindness' and other denials feed into the Myth of Meritocracy which denies systems of inequality and supports narratives of exclusion and blame.