Why It's So Hard To Talk To White People About Racism Analysis

This article of “Why It 's So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism” was interesting to read because I always wonder what do white people think about racism and how they live their life knowing that their racial group has done so much in our world. Dr. Robin DiAngelo explains that schools, textbooks and media doesn’t provide the multicultural perspectives that white people need to understand other ethnic groups. If white people don’t have any type of experience in being around other non white then they won’t fully comprehend them as equals. Some white people see Latinos, Asian, African Americans etc as bad people on what they hear on the news, media or in history textbooks. For example, I grew up knowing one white kid and he was the most …show more content…
One day I even talk to him and told him why certain white people are not open minded like himself and he basically said that “they think our ethnic group run the world, but in reality we as a human race live in this planet and we should learn to get along” There has been bad blood between White people and minorities, but I do agree that we need to squash our past and look forward for our future. The more we dwell in the past, the more we can’t move forward for our future. I personally think, if we can talk to certain white people who are uncomfortable in talking about racism and find the inner root problems, maybe we as a human race can help solve the issue. Throughout the article, I found something interesting that the reader indicated on racism, he stated “Social scientists understand racism as a multidimensional and highly adaptive system -- a system that ensures an unequal distribution of resources between racial groups. Because….benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.” Reading the end of this paragraph got me uneasy because all my life I have notice that white people do get extra benefit just because they are