However, the racial frames and color blindness was still there and they still saw black people as criminals. Something that surprised me, instead of stick together as a unit and face that problem, the whites started to say “black people in New Orleans suffered only because of bureaucratic inefficiencies in the wake of a natural disaster” (625). That shows that the racial frames and color blindness is still there. Even though the racial frames and color-blindness was still there, it was hope for a change, to the better. An example on that is when Harris and Carbado writes “Most whites were able to black people as victims, but they were unwilling to link their victims’ status to race or racism” (625). Here we have an example how hurricane Katarina changed the people’s view of racism to the better, but it is still far away from good, because instead of seeing the black people as victims, the whites made up a story about the black can only blame themselves because they weren’t prepared. I think this is a real problem in this situation, because the whites have start to see the black people as victims, but because of the society they live in, they said it’s their own fault. Something that does not go hand in hand, is how the press can say that a black man is “looting” in the water while two white people are “finding” something, because if the majority of the victims were black, how can it been called for
However, the racial frames and color blindness was still there and they still saw black people as criminals. Something that surprised me, instead of stick together as a unit and face that problem, the whites started to say “black people in New Orleans suffered only because of bureaucratic inefficiencies in the wake of a natural disaster” (625). That shows that the racial frames and color blindness is still there. Even though the racial frames and color-blindness was still there, it was hope for a change, to the better. An example on that is when Harris and Carbado writes “Most whites were able to black people as victims, but they were unwilling to link their victims’ status to race or racism” (625). Here we have an example how hurricane Katarina changed the people’s view of racism to the better, but it is still far away from good, because instead of seeing the black people as victims, the whites made up a story about the black can only blame themselves because they weren’t prepared. I think this is a real problem in this situation, because the whites have start to see the black people as victims, but because of the society they live in, they said it’s their own fault. Something that does not go hand in hand, is how the press can say that a black man is “looting” in the water while two white people are “finding” something, because if the majority of the victims were black, how can it been called for