Racism

I learned a little more about racism this week. From our discussion in class to the documentaries that we watched and the songs we listened to. The doll test was a great discussion but it was to me very upsetting. I felt very mad that the African American children have a serious inferiority complex, Also that the white dolls were superior to the black dolls. Although I didn’t like when the Caucasian man said to the African American men “if we walked into the apple store you would be the one followed not me”. I felt really bad because I know it’s true. I liked when Professor Michael Eric Dyson talked about “soul murder”. He meant that we are here physically but consciously we aren’t ourselves mentally. We have had some great discussions about saggin, and the “n” word, and also about the movie poster of the movie “fred clause” with Vince Vaughn and Ludacris. The media plays a big role in reinforcing the stereotypes that feeds into racism. There have been the some positive songs but my favorite song was erykah badu’s “solider”. It basically talks about black peoples struggle over the years. This idea has helped me with the idea of creating my ism. Also from the documentary I liked when it said racisms is a human creation. Which means that man made racism. They also said that people from different culture like Chinese, African Americans, and white people have more in common than we think. Which I think is true because history says that the first people were in Africa then migrated to the parts of the world. I finally realize that race is a more serious issue than I thought and is an issue that shouldn’t be ignored because if ignored it doesn’t make our situation or us moving into toward the future any better.