Moving to America, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recognized others prejudice treatment towards her was directly related to the color of her skin. Being aware of Americans history and their relationship with race, she understood the history of racism in America, but was perplexed when she analyzed this relationship today. In “The Color of an Awkward Conversation” she identifies two very noticeable ways Americans treat race, a diminisher or a denier, however is she leaving out a large group of American’s who do not treat race as an inconvenience rather something to be celebrated?
In Adichie’s article she tells a story that occurred durning her first few years in America as a nanny when she was still learning about the way Americans view people of a different color. She describes a situation where a child stated “She’s black,” directly in front of her, then uncaringly resumed playing. This left Adichie not only bewildered by the child's actions, but beginning to classify others actions towards race into categories, in this situation the child was acting as a “diminisher”. When Adichie brought this incident up to her friends, they were not be concerned with what the young boy had said because he was just a child. In the example, the child looked at blackness as a disease, and the …show more content…
In her own way she is diminishing the way many people embrace racial differences. Adichie recognizes major problems with how racism is dealt with in America, and while I agree that there are many people who treat racism as no-big-deal, or nobody’s fault, there are also people who do the opposite. She failed to mention these “embracer’s” in her article. This could have been for many reasons, but I believe it was because it distracted from the main point of the article which was that racism is still common and abundant in
In Adichie’s article she tells a story that occurred durning her first few years in America as a nanny when she was still learning about the way Americans view people of a different color. She describes a situation where a child stated “She’s black,” directly in front of her, then uncaringly resumed playing. This left Adichie not only bewildered by the child's actions, but beginning to classify others actions towards race into categories, in this situation the child was acting as a “diminisher”. When Adichie brought this incident up to her friends, they were not be concerned with what the young boy had said because he was just a child. In the example, the child looked at blackness as a disease, and the …show more content…
In her own way she is diminishing the way many people embrace racial differences. Adichie recognizes major problems with how racism is dealt with in America, and while I agree that there are many people who treat racism as no-big-deal, or nobody’s fault, there are also people who do the opposite. She failed to mention these “embracer’s” in her article. This could have been for many reasons, but I believe it was because it distracted from the main point of the article which was that racism is still common and abundant in