This article is entitled “When Whites just don’t get it” and is written by Nicholas Kristof, on August 30 2014. It focuses on the people of the white race downplaying racism towards people of colour. After the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. A ton of controversy arose about racism being treated as a bigger deal than it should be.
A study conducted in 2011 by scholars at Harvard and Tufts revealed some shocking news “Whites,on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black racism.” These people were blind to the fact that anti-black racism is, in fact, a serious problem. Therefore, it is obvious that they treated people of colour as if they were worth nothing and didn’t realize this was not alright;
A study conducted in 2011 by scholars at Harvard and Tufts revealed some shocking news “Whites,on average, believed that anti-white racism was a bigger problem than anti-black racism.” These people were blind to the fact that anti-black racism is, in fact, a serious problem. Therefore, it is obvious that they treated people of colour as if they were worth nothing and didn’t realize this was not alright;