This video made me emotional. I immediately became anxious watching her and her staff separate the students. I don’t even know why I immediately felt like that. Lately whenever I watch or hear things possibly related to racism I become anxious. I am Hispanic and one of my children is half black. I immediately think of her and her dad. I immediately think of my little girl and wonder if she encounters any racism. I pray if she does; she doesn’t register it or that somehow it doesn’t affect her negatively. My little girl is undeniably a mixed child. You can see it in her features and even her hair. Not to mention that the majority of her friends are black. I thought of her and her little friends always playing and talking about their future.
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This realm is dependent on minorities being uneducated and desperate.
I learned a lot with this video experience. I learned that there are a lot of people that are blind to racism. I learned that racism is taught and experienced on different levels. I also learned that there are for more people comfortable with the status quo and that change is not important to them. The video exposed how the blue eyes were either oblivious to racism or where so caught up in their privilege it simply didn’t affect them and therefore was only a problem when they were the ones affected. Racism is not something we have knowledge of at birth. It is something we are taught through family, friends, and experiences. It made me wonder how many people in my life realize racism or even experience it and on what level.
The biggest take away message for me is that even denial of racism is racism. When people act like they can choose how they see others; that’s racism. We don’t get to view people how we want and discount who they are just to make ourselves comfortable. Even though I am
Hispanic, I often am mistaken for white (Italian) and I am treated differently just like
This realm is dependent on minorities being uneducated and desperate.
I learned a lot with this video experience. I learned that there are a lot of people that are blind to racism. I learned that racism is taught and experienced on different levels. I also learned that there are for more people comfortable with the status quo and that change is not important to them. The video exposed how the blue eyes were either oblivious to racism or where so caught up in their privilege it simply didn’t affect them and therefore was only a problem when they were the ones affected. Racism is not something we have knowledge of at birth. It is something we are taught through family, friends, and experiences. It made me wonder how many people in my life realize racism or even experience it and on what level.
The biggest take away message for me is that even denial of racism is racism. When people act like they can choose how they see others; that’s racism. We don’t get to view people how we want and discount who they are just to make ourselves comfortable. Even though I am
Hispanic, I often am mistaken for white (Italian) and I am treated differently just like