Separate But not Equal- Connection
“What I think is a shame is that we have to do all of this
humiliating dancing around the perennially uncomfortable issue of race. We
pretend that no one’s a racist anymore, but it’s easier to talk about
pornography in polite company than racial integration.” Bob Hebert
This quote can relate back to many of the stories we read.
Mostly I thought of
White Privilege by Peggy McIntosh. She says “whites are taught to think of
their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that
when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow “them” to
be more like “us”.
This quote is really important and relates to what Tim Wise
was saying about how Obama got elected president. He says that Obama was an
exception, and people view it like the world is changing because we have a
black president, yet people are still blind. Even though Obama is president, he
still had to work extra hard and be very very smart, where as we voted George
Bush president and he was the total opposite. It goes to show that the two
different race’s are different.
Tim Wise says that have Obama elected was a step towards the
right direction but we still need to keep our eye on the prize and have things
move forward, but we still have a lot more work.
Points to Share:
I am a little late on posting this blog, so we already have
shared our opinions in class. My group discussed Racism 2.0 and we came up with..
1.
The United States pretends that there is
equality
2.
White people are not effected because they don’t
understand
3.
Not everyone has experience
Alicia, I really liked the connection to Peggy White, though it wasn't what I wrote about, I made the same connection! Its tough to get past the "them" and "us" comments...
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