Ethical counseling of diverse clients involves knowing your cultural group, your values, and being aware of your current stage of racial identity development, as well as understanding the stage of racism and identity of minority clients cultural identity (Sue, & Sue, 2013). As a White student counselor, I read the article titled, “Racism and White Counselor Training: Influence of White Racial Identity Theory and Research,” by Sherlon Pack-Brown (1999) and examined the racial and cultural identity stages of Sue and Sue (2013). in order to gain personal knowledge and insights. In Pack-Brown's (1999) article, the relationship between racism, White racial identity, and White counselor education was studied. Racism is an attitude, action or system that discriminates against a person or groups of people based on their skin color or physical characteristics. Racial identity is a person's sense of belonging to a specific group of people and the sense that the group shares a racial heritage. For White counselors, racial identity development involves fostering a healthy White racial identity and sense of self as a White person. According to Pack-Brown, knowing one's racial identity is crucial to the training of an ethics consultant (1999). Racial identity theory is based on five assumptions: every member of society belongs to one or more groups of people; Belonging to a group influences a person's worldview; The United States is a race-centered society and operates according to a hierarchy of racial groups; A racist social environment influences the process of racial identity development; As one develops socially, one grapples with racial identity (Brown et al., 1996; Helms, 1984, 1990, 1995; Parker, 1998; Ponterotto, 1993; Pope-Davis & ...... middle of paper ... ...causing travelers to be kicked off a train because of their behavior and because the driver falsely stereotyped them as Americans He had a prejudice against Americans, which was expressed verbally knee-jerk reaction when I read that we live in a “race-centered society” is a component of racial identity theory Part of me doesn't want this to be true and wants to believe that we are not as focused on race as this statement suggests of the white privilege that I grew up with and that being race-centered does not have to result in a negative interpretation of race-centered with a hierarchical shift of power and privilege is wrong to be another matter