Modern Day Racism Summary

In this last chapter, we are going to talk about the meaning of “whiteness” and modern-day racism, and why we should we even care about it. In the YouTube video by Tim Wise, he explained that prior to the late 1600s in the colony of which now known as the United States, there was no such thing as a white race. People of European Descent never referred to themselves with that term. Racism was developed by wealthy “white race” to one’s advantage for economic necessity and economic justice. He further explained that the rich needed the poor to do the labor for them as the rich folks were not going to. They did not want to harvest their own cottons and build their own houses. The present United States is known as the land of opportunity, and the law mandates that employers must not discriminate applicants based on skin color, race, etc. with many known as equal opportunity employers. Is it know? Statistics have proven that Asian Americans have the highest proportion of college graduates in the country with Hispanic Americans have the lowest proportion. Hispanic Americans earn much less compared to their White Americans …show more content…
Out of all the characters, only two characters are non-white: Princess Jasmine and Pocahontas. The rest have lighter skin texture and white complexion. Even Disney characters that are not on the slides such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, etc. have white complexion. The main viewers for Disney movies are children, hence, Disney teaches us that white is the color most people desire, and any non-white skin colors are undesirable.
I will focus in great detail regarding the colorblind racism on the critical report paper, but some examples of colorblind racism are shown in the power point slides starting from slide 70 which shows fraternity member from University of Florida wearing blackface, and Penn State University Sorority making fun of Mexican