Throughout my life, I have not only learned, but also experienced racism, discrimination, and prejudice against minorities, specifically African Americans. I have observed throughout time that there really has always been a need for improvement on a federal level of racial equality throughout the United States. Therefore, I will utilize this paper to reflect on my own experiences and also several of the readings, including Gilens’ Why Americans Hate Welfare, Hutchings’ article on racism after Obama, as well as Rabinowitz’s article discussing the impact of symbolic racism on US policies, in an attempt to determine the discrepancy of racial equality in the United States’ society.
I will specifically look at welfare and racism, including inequality …show more content…
Rabinowitz uses the theory of symbolic racism (SR), or racism that prejudices African Americans, to describe the reasons why white Americans do in fact oppose policies that are race-targeted. Symbolic racism is very real in today’s society, one example coinciding with the stereotype Gilens’ surfaced in his book that was previously discussed about African Americans being lazy. One of the aspects of symbolic racism is the idea that African Americans fail to make ground in today’s society due to being unwilling to work, which is one of the biggest stereotypes that African American welfare recipients …show more content…
The New York Times talks about the Black Lives Matter movement, discussing how conservatives view this as an “anti-white” remark, feeding into the ideas that Rabinowitz discussed about conservative whites not backing racial policy. The same article stated “black men were 3.5 more likely to be killed by cops than white men.” (Rosenthal) This horrendous figure all goes back to the motive I’ve discussed throughout this paper: racism. These individuals that kill innocent African Americans don’t support racial policies like Rabinowitz discussed, they don’t believe African Americans deserve welfare like Gilens said, and they are the epitome of the racists left after the election of our first African American
I will specifically look at welfare and racism, including inequality …show more content…
Rabinowitz uses the theory of symbolic racism (SR), or racism that prejudices African Americans, to describe the reasons why white Americans do in fact oppose policies that are race-targeted. Symbolic racism is very real in today’s society, one example coinciding with the stereotype Gilens’ surfaced in his book that was previously discussed about African Americans being lazy. One of the aspects of symbolic racism is the idea that African Americans fail to make ground in today’s society due to being unwilling to work, which is one of the biggest stereotypes that African American welfare recipients …show more content…
The New York Times talks about the Black Lives Matter movement, discussing how conservatives view this as an “anti-white” remark, feeding into the ideas that Rabinowitz discussed about conservative whites not backing racial policy. The same article stated “black men were 3.5 more likely to be killed by cops than white men.” (Rosenthal) This horrendous figure all goes back to the motive I’ve discussed throughout this paper: racism. These individuals that kill innocent African Americans don’t support racial policies like Rabinowitz discussed, they don’t believe African Americans deserve welfare like Gilens said, and they are the epitome of the racists left after the election of our first African American