The next question involved the notation if race should be considered in college admissions. I this time started with student #2 and asked him what he thought about this and she stated that of course race shouldn’t be considered as a factor in college admissions. He said it would give white people another advantage over students of color yet again if this were to happen. He believed that students should just able to present their academics as a proof of self-worth rather than involving race. Student #1 had a similar answer to this and also said every student should be able to go to school without having to identify themselves. I then proceeded to ask if it would make a difference if colleges like historically black colleges used race in
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The first one was asking how we should we address the problem of racism. Student #1 struggled with this question and said she doesn’t think the problem is addressing the problem but rather how to take action against this problem. I then went to ask what solutions she believed would help this problem. Her answer was to educate those who were ignorant and we should start this process as early as middle school. She believed that in middle that were above the age of ten could understand more about racism as opposed to kids in elementary. Student #2 went on by saying that he didn’t think there could ever be a solution or a way to improve racism in our country. The best way to fight this issue was to educate our own children and to find away to repeat some of the actions from the past, for example Martin Luther King Jr., and help this problem of racism. My second question was basically if they believed that racism could ever be gone in our society. Both came out with the same answer saying they don’t think it could ever end. At least not in their lifetime, racism will continue to be a problem. I think Bonilla-Silva would say about there answers to these questions would be that most of the sematic moves, storylines, projections and color-blind frames have affected much of their mind of thinking. These concepts have been embedded in their minds that have affected their way of thinking about they perceive the world. The have little hope for things getting any better for themselves as a minority and they don’t even expect a change for the
The first one was asking how we should we address the problem of racism. Student #1 struggled with this question and said she doesn’t think the problem is addressing the problem but rather how to take action against this problem. I then went to ask what solutions she believed would help this problem. Her answer was to educate those who were ignorant and we should start this process as early as middle school. She believed that in middle that were above the age of ten could understand more about racism as opposed to kids in elementary. Student #2 went on by saying that he didn’t think there could ever be a solution or a way to improve racism in our country. The best way to fight this issue was to educate our own children and to find away to repeat some of the actions from the past, for example Martin Luther King Jr., and help this problem of racism. My second question was basically if they believed that racism could ever be gone in our society. Both came out with the same answer saying they don’t think it could ever end. At least not in their lifetime, racism will continue to be a problem. I think Bonilla-Silva would say about there answers to these questions would be that most of the sematic moves, storylines, projections and color-blind frames have affected much of their mind of thinking. These concepts have been embedded in their minds that have affected their way of thinking about they perceive the world. The have little hope for things getting any better for themselves as a minority and they don’t even expect a change for the