POST #2
Watching Carlos lecture on recitatif, this is an informative and gives us a wider view of how racism goes about and how we are all participants in it no matter what we perceive ourselves to be. He starts by giving us two names and ask us to pick which race the two belong too. And he gives you a few seconds to make your judgment. He then says, if you made a judgement or even thought about who belongs to what race, its shows you identify with race. I will agree with him on that, because if you don’t identify with race, you should not think or make a judgment.
From the video we learn about the different lenses that people see race through. This really enlightened me as I wasn’t even thinking on that same perspective. We do have the Racial lens and the Racist lens. Racial lens is defined as our perception of race and racist lens is the value we place on our perception of race.
Racial lens is further dived into three: location within race, interaction with race and time in context with race. We can all identify and relate with this categories. Location within race is how a person identifies in terms of race, to me this can be translated as, am I black, white, Hispanic, Asian and so forth. Once you identify with race, you will want to feel comfortable in that race. Another thing is the interaction with …show more content…
If they don’t choose a race for any of the two girls (Roberta & Twyla), then we can all join in the bandwagon for taking color out of the equation. As Mr. Carlos says, if you chose a race, that shows you identify with race, so people should stop being ignorant and accept the fact that color is and will still be a bigger issue, once we agree we all identify with race, then we can embark on the task of fighting and defeating racism. But as long as we keep on deny the color issue we will be going in circles and not solving
Watching Carlos lecture on recitatif, this is an informative and gives us a wider view of how racism goes about and how we are all participants in it no matter what we perceive ourselves to be. He starts by giving us two names and ask us to pick which race the two belong too. And he gives you a few seconds to make your judgment. He then says, if you made a judgement or even thought about who belongs to what race, its shows you identify with race. I will agree with him on that, because if you don’t identify with race, you should not think or make a judgment.
From the video we learn about the different lenses that people see race through. This really enlightened me as I wasn’t even thinking on that same perspective. We do have the Racial lens and the Racist lens. Racial lens is defined as our perception of race and racist lens is the value we place on our perception of race.
Racial lens is further dived into three: location within race, interaction with race and time in context with race. We can all identify and relate with this categories. Location within race is how a person identifies in terms of race, to me this can be translated as, am I black, white, Hispanic, Asian and so forth. Once you identify with race, you will want to feel comfortable in that race. Another thing is the interaction with …show more content…
If they don’t choose a race for any of the two girls (Roberta & Twyla), then we can all join in the bandwagon for taking color out of the equation. As Mr. Carlos says, if you chose a race, that shows you identify with race, so people should stop being ignorant and accept the fact that color is and will still be a bigger issue, once we agree we all identify with race, then we can embark on the task of fighting and defeating racism. But as long as we keep on deny the color issue we will be going in circles and not solving