In the book "Citizen: An American Lyric," Claudia Rankine, author of the book, provided readers with numerous examples of micro-aggression. One example of these can be found in chapter 3: “And when the woman with the multiple degrees says, I didn’t know black women could get cancer”; while this, although being offensive, does not fall clearly into the category of racism, another example in the chapter can hardly be anything other than racism: “This friend says, as you walk toward her, You are late, you nappy headed ho.”Micro-aggression was created to categorize causal, daily degrading terms, and it has a lot of implications. One of such implications is the hardship micro-aggression causes on the listeners in responding to such micro-aggression. With direct racist terms, one can and should tell the speaker to stop, and even the legislature can help the victims. Yet, with micro-aggression, responding becomes suddenly harder. Because of the daily and casual nature of micro-aggression, victims of such usually receive micro-aggression from people whom they normally have a harmonious relationship with, if not friends. And in such a case, if one chooses to tell the speaker to stop talking, it risks the other to think bad of one due to social conventions especially between young people who are not yet fully mature and even unnecessary deterioration of relationships. Silence is also not a solution in this situation, because people who give such offensive remarks will further encroach on the dignity of the victims if they see no consequences. As pointed out by the boo, one of the most harmful implications of micro-aggression is that victims can hardly protect themselves from such, which makes responses and solutions to micro-aggression extremely hard to achieve. When we can hardly find a solution along the line of political correctness or conventional wisdom, it is rather plausible to think along social norms. One such solution is the usage of joke or colloquial language to casually, just like the casual in micro-aggression, point out the offensive nature of a phrase. For example, one can possibly respond to the statement that black people can’t get cancer by saying: “Oh! All humans can get cancer! Black people aren’t no aliens from Mars.” Though seemingly jocular, the phrase points out how offensive the prior statement is. There are, of course, other possible solutions, and the effectiveness of the one suggested can never be guaranteed. Yet, when the conventional logic of response to racism does not fit with micro-aggression, thinking along the lines of social norms and people’s habits can be a plausible solution.