I think it is because of two basic reasons; firstly, as Tatum points out, one can relate better with peers of their own race because they too understand the difficulties of being a minority. I think she really made a great point, how can we expect a white person to understand the racism towards African Americans. Ms. Tatum gave an example regarding a 9th grade substitute teacher suggesting four-year colleges to all her white students and suggesting that a black adolescent male in her class go to a community college. It would be almost silly for that African American boy to sympathize with one of the white peers, not only would it be hard to relate to each other, it would be downright embarrassing. I actually think that the white teenager wouldn’t be able to see why the colored boy was hurt, they would just brush it off and give an explanation like “oh the teacher didn’t mean it like that”.
In text 1, we meet Yolanda Young who is a lawyer and columnist for the USA today. She writes in the newspaper that she has noticed a change since the selection of Barack Obama. Yolanda describes how white people now meet her eyes with a smile, instead of seeing right through her, as she rights, I am invisible no more. This new improvement is confirmed by two psychology professors. In text 2, Eric Holder is the first black attorney general.
I think this was just a lack of training and stereotyping against these innocent men who were put into a category they did not belong in. As I mentioned earlier, racism is very well alive and I think many people know they are racist as much as they try to tell themselves they are not. I think researchers are trying to find an “okay” to why some people think they are superior to others or why they tend to be prejudice and racist. This is not right and if we want to change this mentality it needs to start in children and raising them to understand we are all humans, no different from one another, and categorizing people because of the color of their skin is not
What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any? I do not feel there are any positive aspects of stereotypes. I feel as is it a personal belief/myth about the way people perceive others. When speaking of stereotyping we should know the facts before making such a judgment. Example; saying white people are the most succefful that may not be true unless there is substantial evidence.
After centuries of giving value to the color of a person’s skin, attempting to push race aside now also pushes aside the struggles that many people have gone through because of the value placed on their skin. The need for colorblindness also implies there is something shameful about the way God made us and the culture we were born into, that we are to timid to speak about. Colorblindness has helped make race a taboo topic that people no longer want to discuss. And if you can’t talk about it, you can’t understand it, much less fix the racial problems that plague our society. We should explore our society and what we mean by race because if we do not know what we mean by race we cannot tackle institutional racism.
Jobs in the black community A. How blacks are looked over in the job field B. Whites ranking higher positions than blacks lll. Education concerning the black community A. Minority in the schools B.
Nowadays many races are stereotyped, but African Americans are one of the most frequently racial groups stereotyped against. Stereotypes of African America developed in American culture back in the colonial years of settlement, after slavery became mainly associated with African Americans. In the 19th century the black face minstrel shows portrays African
African American History History The history of African Americans is largely the story of their struggle for freedom and equality. Most African
Why do you think she distinguishes between sexist remarks and racist remarks? Explain your answer. While I understand Fredia’s advice, I personally disagree with it. Using the adage “boys will be boys” is excusing and validating their bad behavior. A person that so easily dismisses their behavior as innocent probably has a hard time distinguishing between any inappropriate remarks, racist or otherwise.
Lynley Price Professor Burke GSWS 201 March 7, 2014 Being White Privileged As Wayne Dyer, an American self-help writer and motivational speaker, once said, “judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances” (Racism Quotes and Sayings 1). I have never been a big fan of racism, putting down, or even judging others based on their ethnicity. Some of my best friends are of different ethnicities, so while writing this paper, as a white woman, I was thinking a lot about how I benefit from “white privilege”. “White privilege” refers to a set of societal privileges that white people benefit from beyond those commonly experienced by people of color in the same social, political, or economic spaces (White Privilege 1). A key element of white privilege is simply not having to think about race, not having to think about my color and how people are going to respond to me