Jesco White

“unbusinesslike.”(181) Then IM works at Literby Paint, he repeats the company’s slogan “If It’s Optic White, It’s the Right White.” and “suddenly has to repress a laugh as a childhood jingle rang through [his] mind,” and he mocks “If you’re white, you’re right.” (218) IM begins to realize the racial differences and social discrimination happening around him, and thus he starts to feel disgusted towards white people’s superiority and no longer admires their power. This revelation is the first…

Who Are the Real Racists? “White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires … We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." (Al Sharpton). Who are the real racists? As the media portrays who the racists are, white people and conservatives. Or is it actually, liberals, blacks and most of the media? Racism has existed since the earliest of…

and the second group that contained those with darker skin and kinkier hair that were sent to do field work. When the term “good hair” is used it is meant to portray an image of “naturally straight, soft to the touch, long, and closet in texture to white women’s hair” while “bad hair” has portrays an image of Black hair in its natural state “- thick, wooly, an enemy to fine-toothed comb”. Hair for Black women has come to represent more than just fashion, but can be seen as a reminder of…

Privileges White privilege is a set of privileges that white people benefit from on a daily basis. It is as if doesn 't exist because it is camouflaged into society and is the sole reason why the United States is not a free country. It has long been a critical issue in our society and while many people have brought the topic to attention, only Peggy McIntosh and Tim Wise have been able to initiate it successfully. They present the image of white privilege in hopes of influencing other white…

Racism in To Kill a Mockingbird “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.” (295) With these words, Atticus informs Jem that not everything is right and fair. What Atticus meant most importantly by this quote was that not everyone is equal to each other in the world. To be more specific, African Americans and white people are no where near equal. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper…

Film Critique Assignment In the film Rosewood, Fanny Taylor, a married white women falsely accused an African American man of abuse and rape which stirred a fury against African Americans. Fanny’s husband and a group of white men go to nearby towns to investigate and search for the African American male. The African Americans lived in a small town called rosewood, where everything was going well for them. They owned their own businesses and their homes. It was a land of opportunity for the…

notice to such an issue? How could it be justified for police officers to use legislation that allows their biased opinions to stop anyone for no reason? Racism is present in criminal justice because of the difference in percentage of non-white inmates vs white inmates, poor legislation, and lack of jury duty diversity. In 1986 and 1988, two federal sentencing laws were enacted that made the punishment for distributing crack cocaine 100 times greater than the…

black people, especially in case of the kids who couldn’t be sent to jail because they were too young. In an article this is exactly what happens. It states: “the lynching of two Negro boys who had been guilty of criminally attacking and murdering a white girl" (“Glorying in Their Shame”). Holiday’s song alludes to the recent Southern lynching that were going on in the south. She paints this unsettling picture through her words of what these ‘strange fruit’ appear to be from an almost…

Entry 1 I am nervous and excited for this class. I want to know and understand the systemic oppression people of color face, but I am afraid, and embarrassed, that I know so little in the first place. The only background I have for this course is that I live in America and I read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. She argues mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow. Alexander’s book was so shocking to me that I just wanted to know more, like what the social implication are of this type of…

White privilege means, for the sake of this essay, that because of your skin color, you will not experience the same injustices that a person of color will face. It mainly applies to those who are Caucasian, but it is also applicable to those who are people of color and are “white-passing” in which their skin is lighter, causing them to appear “white.” Examples of white privilege are very apparent, such as the lack of representation of people of color in the media, yet it is widely unknown or…