I grew up in a small town where there were not many people of color. In my high school class of roughly 160 there were no people of color. I was not familiar with any until I started my college career. My eyes have been opened to many things since I began my college career and the subject of race is just one. White like Me is a documentary by Tim Wise an American anti-racism activist and this are my thoughts on the his documentary.
Watching White like Me felt as if just because Tim Wise grew up with people of color he was able to identify with them. I feel as if he is trying to make ‘white’ people feel bad about things our ancestors did or said, making it feel like it was our fault. He is still ‘white’ no matter where he grew up. Yes, people …show more content…
It is called population growth, the numbers are too different to compare the two.
What does it mean to be white? How can I answer that? As a whole we are not brought up to respect our past, our history, we are taught to fear it. Hence the saying “History always repeats itself.” We do not want another World War, Holocaust, etc. We are not taught the importance of heritage, music, food, or family. A colored co-worker of mine had been brought up with a deep love for his past, his peoples’ music, food and his family. He knows what it means to be black because he was brought up with a respect that white people as a whole have lost somewhere along the way.
With everything that has been going on in America in the past year starting with the shooting of Michael Brown in August of 2014 it is no wonder that the subject of race is on everyone’s mind. Once again race is being used in the news to make us turn against each other, because a white man killed a person of color or when this past week two white people were killed on air, live TV, by a person of color but you do not see people rallying for their
Watching White like Me felt as if just because Tim Wise grew up with people of color he was able to identify with them. I feel as if he is trying to make ‘white’ people feel bad about things our ancestors did or said, making it feel like it was our fault. He is still ‘white’ no matter where he grew up. Yes, people …show more content…
It is called population growth, the numbers are too different to compare the two.
What does it mean to be white? How can I answer that? As a whole we are not brought up to respect our past, our history, we are taught to fear it. Hence the saying “History always repeats itself.” We do not want another World War, Holocaust, etc. We are not taught the importance of heritage, music, food, or family. A colored co-worker of mine had been brought up with a deep love for his past, his peoples’ music, food and his family. He knows what it means to be black because he was brought up with a respect that white people as a whole have lost somewhere along the way.
With everything that has been going on in America in the past year starting with the shooting of Michael Brown in August of 2014 it is no wonder that the subject of race is on everyone’s mind. Once again race is being used in the news to make us turn against each other, because a white man killed a person of color or when this past week two white people were killed on air, live TV, by a person of color but you do not see people rallying for their