Many have been asking for a solution to the problem of racism that has been constant in American Society, the group in America that receives the most amount of racism against them is African Americans, this specific group is still trying to find their place in American Society, and trying always to be equal to those of the white American population. So how can Americans both black and white help with the Racism problem in American Society.
With movements like black lives matter, blacks are wanting more and more for whites to accept the part that they played in their history. White Responsibility is the white population being the majority in society, and the most accepted culture to take part in making sure that the black population are accepted and that whites are able to understand the role that they play in the history and life of blacks, and accepting this aspect of one’s identity as socially meaningful and needed to take …show more content…
“Presence of Mind” the concept developed by Walter Benjamin is “an abstract of the future and precise awareness of the present moment more decisive than fore knowledge of the most distant events” (The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the “White” problem in American Studies. Lipsitz, par 2.) This “Requires an understanding of the existence and the destructive consequence of “White Identity”. Whites must understand the existence of the fact that there is such a thing as white’s responsibility and also that there is a consequence to not accepting that this kind of problem does exist and acknowledging that they must take responsibility in finding a solution to this problem, and making a difference in the American Society, concerning this
With movements like black lives matter, blacks are wanting more and more for whites to accept the part that they played in their history. White Responsibility is the white population being the majority in society, and the most accepted culture to take part in making sure that the black population are accepted and that whites are able to understand the role that they play in the history and life of blacks, and accepting this aspect of one’s identity as socially meaningful and needed to take …show more content…
“Presence of Mind” the concept developed by Walter Benjamin is “an abstract of the future and precise awareness of the present moment more decisive than fore knowledge of the most distant events” (The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the “White” problem in American Studies. Lipsitz, par 2.) This “Requires an understanding of the existence and the destructive consequence of “White Identity”. Whites must understand the existence of the fact that there is such a thing as white’s responsibility and also that there is a consequence to not accepting that this kind of problem does exist and acknowledging that they must take responsibility in finding a solution to this problem, and making a difference in the American Society, concerning this