In ground and bottom, it does not matter if someone is white or black, American or Hispanic, we are all the same. Is it right to judge people by the color of their skin? Is treating people equally regardless of race somehow a paragon of inequality? Unfortunately, in today’s society we are judging people from the color of their skin, and not from their country of origin, ethnicity or biological. My view of equality and racism is completely different now from what it was before I read these readings. I have always been knowledgeable about the racism here in the United States, however I never knew that it was that extreme. The racism is not just between the population anymore; social media is involved too. The social media is probably one of
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Color blindness and racial frames is a main problem here in the Unites States. However, Holtzman and Sharpes discuss frontstage and backstage jokes, in a way that they mean, in frontstage is in front of professionals, and in backstage is just “behind the scenes”, when nobody sees. It does not happen a lot that people makes frontstage racism jokes because of the laws, and to protect their own image in front of social media. However, it happens way too often that people makes racism jokes backstage, and that’s not acceptable at all. I think it is really disrespectful to call someone “nigga”. The frontstage/backstage joke part did not surprise me at all, because I am knowledgeable about that no one that’s normal in his head will say something inappropriate in front of social media, however, I was also knowledgeable about how bad the language is in the backstage, so from that part, that was nothing new from me. Something that Holtzmans writes that is interesting, is when she writes “race itself is a fiction” (603), and she means that it does not matter if you are black or white, it is not the problem in today’s society. The problem is not about our skin color; it is about our privilege in this country. As Holtzman’s writes: “Whiteness is a constantly shifting boundary separating those who are entitled to have certain privileges from those who exploitation and
Holtzman and Sharpes …show more content…
Color blindness and racial frames is a main problem here in the Unites States. However, Holtzman and Sharpes discuss frontstage and backstage jokes, in a way that they mean, in frontstage is in front of professionals, and in backstage is just “behind the scenes”, when nobody sees. It does not happen a lot that people makes frontstage racism jokes because of the laws, and to protect their own image in front of social media. However, it happens way too often that people makes racism jokes backstage, and that’s not acceptable at all. I think it is really disrespectful to call someone “nigga”. The frontstage/backstage joke part did not surprise me at all, because I am knowledgeable about that no one that’s normal in his head will say something inappropriate in front of social media, however, I was also knowledgeable about how bad the language is in the backstage, so from that part, that was nothing new from me. Something that Holtzmans writes that is interesting, is when she writes “race itself is a fiction” (603), and she means that it does not matter if you are black or white, it is not the problem in today’s society. The problem is not about our skin color; it is about our privilege in this country. As Holtzman’s writes: “Whiteness is a constantly shifting boundary separating those who are entitled to have certain privileges from those who exploitation and