Manuel Amado
SOA 211 thinking through Writing
Professor Rachel Kulick
February 19, 2016
The roots
We live in a society where race determines how, where and why we live our daily lives the certain way we do. The ideology behind racism is a belief system that a certain race is more dominant then other races in terms of traits, abilities and appearance. Where did this ideology come from? Sociologist Strmic-Pawl Hephzibah, came up with the theory of the white supremacy flower model to teach the origins of racism. The belief system ideology of racism was created by elite white supremacists to hold the inferior minorities/blacks group in check and rule them in whichever way they see fit to. An example of this would be slavery, the holocaust Etc...The …show more content…
White supremacists have affected our consciousness that we see black as evil and white has well. This intrigues why do we use white at weddings and black for funerals? Seeing white has ‘good’ and black as ‘evil’ was all taught us by the system of racial oppression. It was taught to us through events of “breach of tribal treaties, Jim Crow laws, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and Japanese internment,” and white was protected by white racial frame, and were not affected by this. For blacks if they wanted an education they had walk miles to seat in a classroom that lacks of resources. Whom do I blame for this, simply the whites. If you Tim Wise’s article “what whites don’t know about racism” you’d agree with me. Whites haven’t experienced what blacks experienced in their lifetime, so when you tell them that they are more privileged they won’t see it and they use the reverse discrimination that blacks have it more than whites. As Wise puts it “is to say that white folks know black and brown reality better than those who live it” that’s being ignorant because the fact is that you don’t know, they don’t see themselves as the problem. With slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation and all that has happened and with that blacks has faced and with injustice they face today only “four out of ten whites would concur” and whites are to blame
SOA 211 thinking through Writing
Professor Rachel Kulick
February 19, 2016
The roots
We live in a society where race determines how, where and why we live our daily lives the certain way we do. The ideology behind racism is a belief system that a certain race is more dominant then other races in terms of traits, abilities and appearance. Where did this ideology come from? Sociologist Strmic-Pawl Hephzibah, came up with the theory of the white supremacy flower model to teach the origins of racism. The belief system ideology of racism was created by elite white supremacists to hold the inferior minorities/blacks group in check and rule them in whichever way they see fit to. An example of this would be slavery, the holocaust Etc...The …show more content…
White supremacists have affected our consciousness that we see black as evil and white has well. This intrigues why do we use white at weddings and black for funerals? Seeing white has ‘good’ and black as ‘evil’ was all taught us by the system of racial oppression. It was taught to us through events of “breach of tribal treaties, Jim Crow laws, the Chinese Exclusion Act, and Japanese internment,” and white was protected by white racial frame, and were not affected by this. For blacks if they wanted an education they had walk miles to seat in a classroom that lacks of resources. Whom do I blame for this, simply the whites. If you Tim Wise’s article “what whites don’t know about racism” you’d agree with me. Whites haven’t experienced what blacks experienced in their lifetime, so when you tell them that they are more privileged they won’t see it and they use the reverse discrimination that blacks have it more than whites. As Wise puts it “is to say that white folks know black and brown reality better than those who live it” that’s being ignorant because the fact is that you don’t know, they don’t see themselves as the problem. With slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation and all that has happened and with that blacks has faced and with injustice they face today only “four out of ten whites would concur” and whites are to blame