Without any doubt racism is like a still exciting and active Volcano, which can explode any minute without a warning. We know the power of the lava which can destroy people and their homes. A long-lasting problem that is bothering not only our country, but also many individuals all over this planet, is racism. The majority of people may think that racism isn’t a real issue and that it is just a stereotype that certain people are being racist towards black people. Generalized stereotypes are thoughts and ideas about a group. Racism is part of our country since centuries and it’s the belief of someone that based on another person’s skin color, race, ethnic identity, etc. to be worth superior than others. Racism is seen as practices from the racial
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“The Slave Side of Sunday” written by Dave Zirin, in which he showed and compared football with in being slaved. The article shows the former NFL player Anthony Prior’s viewpoint about the hierarchy and in how privileged the whites are in a NFL team. The hierarchy in the NFL is simply, the black society alias the players are on the bottom, above them are the coaches (mostly white) who “controls” them and then on the top there are the white Owners and General Managers. “He sees this lack of control being intimately tied with a dynamic where 65 percent of the players are African-American, yet only 18 percent of coaches, 6 percent of general managers and no owners are anything other than white” (Zirin, 452). We can find in this statement black people in the higher hierarchy but it’s again the minority. Players do not have any voice in a team nor do they have any control over if they get traded, drafted or sold to another team, unfortunately they just seen as a player with not much to say. The way to make whiteness visible is to speak on it and bring it to everyone’s attention and that is what the author want to do. Everyone if not most people are aware of it, but they choose to not acknowledge how the whites are privileged. The disadvantage of being discriminated against has a huge impact on everyone, while the minority (blacks) …show more content…
Unless people don’t change their approach, attitude and mindset towards racism, we never can fully get rid of this huge, cruel issue. All races deserve and should get equal opportunities in their life. It is up to us as a society to recognize and change our mindset. We live now in such a modern, technology time where we always reach for a better access to others in upgrading our lifestyle and devices, but have we ever thought about to upgrade our beliefs and mind? Unfortunately for our own good, this has been forgotten by many and we sadly belong to a world where we judge people by skin color. I feel like we as a society created classes and races etc. just to divide humans. All of the living people in the world should have equal opportunities in life. We receive so many different information’s from all kind or sources like family, friends, social media, commercial, etc. Those second hand info’s are incomplete, misleading and inaccurate assumptions/stereotype thinking shaped by society. People of color experiences so many unpleasant situation while growing up and this is just based of those limited and incomplete information’s. Society assume by a black persons appearance that he/she might be an aggressive and rude person, African
“The Slave Side of Sunday” written by Dave Zirin, in which he showed and compared football with in being slaved. The article shows the former NFL player Anthony Prior’s viewpoint about the hierarchy and in how privileged the whites are in a NFL team. The hierarchy in the NFL is simply, the black society alias the players are on the bottom, above them are the coaches (mostly white) who “controls” them and then on the top there are the white Owners and General Managers. “He sees this lack of control being intimately tied with a dynamic where 65 percent of the players are African-American, yet only 18 percent of coaches, 6 percent of general managers and no owners are anything other than white” (Zirin, 452). We can find in this statement black people in the higher hierarchy but it’s again the minority. Players do not have any voice in a team nor do they have any control over if they get traded, drafted or sold to another team, unfortunately they just seen as a player with not much to say. The way to make whiteness visible is to speak on it and bring it to everyone’s attention and that is what the author want to do. Everyone if not most people are aware of it, but they choose to not acknowledge how the whites are privileged. The disadvantage of being discriminated against has a huge impact on everyone, while the minority (blacks) …show more content…
Unless people don’t change their approach, attitude and mindset towards racism, we never can fully get rid of this huge, cruel issue. All races deserve and should get equal opportunities in their life. It is up to us as a society to recognize and change our mindset. We live now in such a modern, technology time where we always reach for a better access to others in upgrading our lifestyle and devices, but have we ever thought about to upgrade our beliefs and mind? Unfortunately for our own good, this has been forgotten by many and we sadly belong to a world where we judge people by skin color. I feel like we as a society created classes and races etc. just to divide humans. All of the living people in the world should have equal opportunities in life. We receive so many different information’s from all kind or sources like family, friends, social media, commercial, etc. Those second hand info’s are incomplete, misleading and inaccurate assumptions/stereotype thinking shaped by society. People of color experiences so many unpleasant situation while growing up and this is just based of those limited and incomplete information’s. Society assume by a black persons appearance that he/she might be an aggressive and rude person, African