When you get this letter 10 years will have passed since I was in your position. I never really considered that I had a racist bone in my body. I mean, most if not all of my friends then were minorities of some sort, and I got along just fine with them. But subconsciously I began to notice that the successes of minorities irritated me because part of me believed I was better than they were. So I began to try to find ways to justify my superiority so that I could avoid the reality that if I didn’t really start cracking down I would lose out to people of color.
Because for 100s of years the white man has been politically superior, he has come to be seen by his own as biologically more civilized and beautiful in appearance. You and me, we have …show more content…
I was talking about depending on your innate talent to achieve success and justifying your talent above others who you feel are threatening the security of your position in society. But it is connected to her point, which is that the past perceptions of black people and what it means to be a black person in a society of white folks make it difficult to establish an individual identity outside of that box that you were born into. Thus as Rankine put it, black bodies are in some sense …show more content…
I think this connects back to Roman times in which german tribes were seen as “barbaric” by the romans while they were the same color. Color, therefore, is simply an obvious distinction used to justify your dislike of the differing cultural and ethnic origins of minorities. People can resent people of color’s success because they know that their ancestors came from Africa and looked and behaved a certain way tying them to barbarism. So if they look physically similar and behave with similar cultural mannerisms, white people might obviously associate these aspects with slavery and are frustrated with their perceived trying to unseat
Because for 100s of years the white man has been politically superior, he has come to be seen by his own as biologically more civilized and beautiful in appearance. You and me, we have …show more content…
I was talking about depending on your innate talent to achieve success and justifying your talent above others who you feel are threatening the security of your position in society. But it is connected to her point, which is that the past perceptions of black people and what it means to be a black person in a society of white folks make it difficult to establish an individual identity outside of that box that you were born into. Thus as Rankine put it, black bodies are in some sense …show more content…
I think this connects back to Roman times in which german tribes were seen as “barbaric” by the romans while they were the same color. Color, therefore, is simply an obvious distinction used to justify your dislike of the differing cultural and ethnic origins of minorities. People can resent people of color’s success because they know that their ancestors came from Africa and looked and behaved a certain way tying them to barbarism. So if they look physically similar and behave with similar cultural mannerisms, white people might obviously associate these aspects with slavery and are frustrated with their perceived trying to unseat