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Tim Wise’s film “White Like Me” is an educational documentary about racism and white privilege. The film begins with Wise’s personal story on how he learned the importance of race at a young age after attending preschool at Tennessee State University, a historically African American college. Being one of the only Caucasian students and being taught by predominantly African American administrators, allowed Wise to gain respect for African American authority figures which ultimately made a huge difference in how he came to see the world. Throughout the film, Wise expands on his personal encounters with race while incorporating interviews with scholars and candid comments from white students discussing their opinions on some heavy questions

At some point a person has had an personal experience with racism whether they witness it or face it head on. People should be aware that racism exists and affects everyone regardless of race and or ethnicity. Any of kind of racism is deplorable in its own way. My recent experience with racism was a few years back.I was in the mall with my friends and we were walking around and just hanging around and I accidentally bump into a middle aged lady. I looked back to face her to apologize and she got mad at me. She said offensive remarks to me.One of those offensive remarks she said is that I couldn 't see where I was going because my eyes are too small and she also said do I bump into things when I drive too because I can 't see. After she was done insulting me my friends defended me because they knew I didn 't mean to bump into her. I apologized and walked away hastily so I wouldn 't show my friends that I was about to cry. After that my friends comforted me and we forgot about the incident like it never happened. It is an personal experience I will never forget. I was speechless when she told all those offensive insults to me. I really couldn 't do anything I was trying to apologize but she couldn 't let me speak

Stereotypes and discrimination have been in our society since this country’s founding. In our current society, many of these stereotypes are projected through movies. In the article “Whistling Vivaldi” Steele makes frequent comments about the differences between black and whites stating if you are any color other than white you are in fact less intelligent (2). This is the core problem, in our day to day lives, stereotypes get thrown around like they are facts, without any questions involved. Wither you are white, Black, or Hispanic, we all function the same on the inside.

One common theme throughout the reading is that “…systemic racist attitudes and negative depictions of people of colour by whites persist” (Feagin & Elias, 2013, p. 937). The historical trajectory of research methods are deeply rooted with systemic forms of racism, which is reflected in literature that was published centuries ago and can still be found in current literature today. Some of the articles that were assigned reference opinions and other forms of literature that state that white Americans believe that race and racism are a thing of the past, while others continue

Prior to taking this course, I was taught, and therefore was under the impression, that prejudice is a preconceived notion about a group and that racism is essentially the same thing, except that racism also encompasses the idea that the group is lesser. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva states that “for most whites, racism is prejudice; for most people of color, racism is systemic or institutionalized” (Bonilla-Silva, 2010). Quotes like this force me to reflect, both on how I see myself and how others see me. Reading that quote, I felt like I related more to ‘most whites’ because I believed that racism was essentially prejudice for so long. I remember once while doing a cross the line activity, I hesitated before moving when the facilitator said “step forward if you are a person on color.” Technically, yes, my skin is pigmented in a way that would qualify me as a person of color but there is a connotation with that phrase that I felt didn’t relate to me. My first reaction to that phrase is the thought of someone who has struggled, someone who faces racism on a regular basis, someone who is treated differently because of the color of their skin. In my opinion, the more others acknowledge a part of your identity, the more apparent that part of your identity is to you, and I don’t often feel that people acknowledge my identity as an Asian American. I’ve been called a coconut more times than I can count. Brown on the outside but white on the inside. Sure I look brown, but I don’t ‘act

Colorblindness has helped disseminate racism in the United States since the Civil Rights movements of the mid-sixties, by perpetuating anti-blackness and racial discrimination against other minorities. Colorblindness is a new form of racism, the new “Jim Crow” which “Legitimizes the state and society as racially neutral although they are not neutral” and creates the belief that we have become post-racial and we are all equal. While preaching homogeneity, colorblindness uses mechanisms by which white racial domination is structured and as a result, colorblind racism has caused a widespread of anti-blackness and racial discrimination against Latinos, Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians.

Wise’s examination of the inconspicuous character of racism 2.0 dovetails fittingly with our course’s recurring theme of institutionalized racism. In class lectures we have defined institutionalized racism as the discriminatory practices that have become regularized and routinized by state agencies, organizations, industries, or anywhere else in society. Although such practices might not be intentionally racist, they end up being racist nevertheless as consequence of the systematized and unspoken biases that have become increasingly convoluted and entrenched within society over time. It also doesn’t help white people to recognize these discriminatory practices considering they have been unconsciously tailored to be consistent with white perspective and mentality. In her article, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh examines not only how white folks often consider themselves to be a normative figure within society, but also how they are carefully taught not to recognize the advantages they gain from the disadvantages that impair people of color. In the article, McIntosh acknowledges the reality of her own white privilege and expresses, “In my class and place, I did not see myself as a racist because I was taught to recognize racism only in individual acts of meanness by members of my group, never in invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my group from birth” (McIntosh 4). In fact, even if white folks do not believe themselves to

Throughout Shakur’s article discussing the topic of racism and white supremacy, Shakur builds his credibility with his audience by providing statistics, information cited by other people, and personal experience. This particular article brings attention to a major controversial issue in the nation from the viewpoint of an African American male. The fact that Shakur discusses the nonexistence of racism or white supremacy and how blacks often cause problems for themselves when buying unnecessary items or sending children to learn about black culture from a white teacher, demonstrates he is unbiased towards his own race. This creates a credible article because Shakur contains no positive bias favoring whites and provides information that is negative for both blacks and whites, creating an unprejudiced exposition. Shakur specifies “racism is mental. It only exists in the mind of the believer…If [people] constantly think about racism, then racism will manifest (Shakur, 2016, p.7). Similarly, the Pew Research Center also must create credibility with its audience in order to successfully capture full attention of readers and inform them of reliable and accurate information. This article provides and array of graphs and charts to represent statistics and survey results. The surveys were conducted by the Pew Research Center, involving United States adults, to create a representative sample of the data. In order to create an unbiased source to make the article as a whole more credible, the opinions were included from both white and black men and women so readers obtain information from both viewpoints. Overall, the survey results find “profound differences between black and white adults in their views on racial discrimination, barriers to black progress, and prospects for change,” demonstrating the racial discrepancies still

The intended audience for this article is people of Caucasian descent. “Yes, we all have unconscious biases, but white people 's biases support a racist system”(Blake, 4). In America, the Civil Rights movement was about freedom of people of color from white supremacy. While people of color are able to enjoy freedoms that they were not able to enjoy in previous centuries, there are still remnants of racial prejudices that exist. The author argues that while everyone stereotypes, racism continues to persist because of the stereotypes of prominent white persons.

People need to raise their children and teach them that just because someone’s hair color, eye color, skin color, etc. is different it doesn’t make them any different from them. All kids should know that everybody is equal and that nobody is ant better that the next person, no matter the situation. I can only hope and pray that people will realize that everyone is equal and that nobody is better than anyone else for the sake of everyone’s future, but I know that deep down inside racism will forever exist all over the world.

Wise defends the notion that racism is still very much alive through present day examples and data. Wise explains how white Americans say, they want to “go back to the old days”

An experience I went through that proved to me color-blind racism is prevalent was when I applied for a job. When I turned sixteen I was so excited to apply for a job because I wanted to feel independent. Naively I didn’t realize that race and ethnicity had a big part of wether or not I got hired. As I applied to this clothing store everything went as planned and

In Whine Merchants: Privilege, Inequality and the Persistent Myth of White Victimhood, Wise believes that discrimination is still rampant in today’s society. He supports this belief by discussing the different scenarios that white people are still privilege compare to blacks and Latinos. For example, employers will likely to hire a white person regardless of his criminal records compare to a qualified black person without a criminal record. Employers should look for a qualified applicant, rather than looking for skin color. Most black people who has a college degree will have a hard time getting a job because of their color. He also discussed how white people complains about the benefits that the government are providing to low income families

The first experiment conducted by Devine and colleagues conducted a well thought out experiment in terms of their technique. In all three studies the authors’ randomly assigned the participants to the experiments increasing the ability to generalize this sample to a larger population. In addition, the participants were asked to freely respond to the question, providing a more accurate knowledge of stereotypes because no cues were provided to influence the subjects’ knowledge. The anonymity of the participants also allows subjects to freely provide information without being judged resulting in an easier access to their private thoughts. Alternatively, in all three studies the authors recruited a number of white participants. This may produce bias in their results as stereotypes and prejudice towards blacks have historical roots in their culture. In the first study, the list of traits do not completely capture

I would suggest that you ask yourself what makes you feel the way you do about race. Is it an experience you have had? Is it something you have learnt at home? Can you give logical reasons for your feelings? To do this you must ask yourself are your fears justified? Are races really different? Does culture really matter? All these are intertwined questions and ones that we must answer before we can tackle the vexed problem of racism.