Today in class we watched a movie called White Like Me, in which TIm Wise talks about how America is to this day racist. The movie is a documentary that goes through how racism is rampant throughout the country, how it hurts black people and white people, and how we need to stop being colorblind to the problems of race.
In one of the parts of the documentary, it talks about how Barack Obama won the 2008 election. After he won, the movie says, that everyone was talking about how we elected a black president, and this proves that all blacks can do it, and that it is not our fault they are the way they are. Then reporters were saying that we entered a post racist society in our country by electing a black president. But Obama still lost the white vote by a lot and there are still more black people in prisons, or on parol in the country now then there were slaves in 1850. This shows that there is still racism in our country and it will not go away until we sit down and face it outright.
This movie to me, made a lot of great points to why racism is bad, and whites are almost programmed to be racist. With all the points that it made i agree that racism is flourishing in our nation and is getting out of control. So I have decided to change the way I think. Look at situations involving blacks and whites and take in all the factors, not just rely on the biases that i have put in my head.http://www.timwise.org/tag/white-like-me-movie/
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