John Blake's Argument Against Racism

One November 27, 2014, CNN featured “The new threat: Racism without racist” by John Blake. In the article Blake (2014) discusses that everyone is racially biased and can do nothing to fix that. In a case study done on race, individuals were asked to look at two photos one on white on white violence and one on white on black violence. The subjects were able to look at the first photo and see which man was holding the weapon. In the second photo they did not pick the right person actually holding the weapon. The study shows that society believes a black man is more likely of having a weapon than a white man (Blake 2014). The definition of racism as changed over the years, supposedly, many white people see racism as a thing of the past but that …show more content…
No one is above racial profiling, for example a man can have culturally diverse range of friends but can still subconsciously profile them at any moment (Blake 2014). The way housing is set up allows poor minorities to live further away from upper and middle classes. The new Ku Klux Klan says they do not follow the old ways of their previous leaders and believes but they do not discriminate for color but to prevent a new world order from forming. In a survey done subjects were given actual statistics from president Obama’s term. The statistics show how he changed the economic status of the united states. The evidence given to them contradicted their beliefs of how effective Obama was during his term. They believed Obama was ineffective with changing the economic status of this country, they though he did not add any jobs to the economy but he actually did. Many intellectuals do not think there is racial bias. Chief justice Robert Chimersky believes that justice should be impartial to color and see no difference between discrimination that benefits or goes against minorities (Blake 2014). The article is incline to people who believe racism/ racial bias is conscious and voluntary action but really is a subconscious