Emily Tomkins
Blog 2 Bonilla-Silva
Chapter 1-5
This Must be True
Colorblindness affects society
without really saying actually what they mean. It’s in the media, body
language, coded words. People can make assumptions with race and actually
believe in those stereotypes. “A black
man,” took my job and that saying is something many individuals have heard
throughout their life. Affirmative Action is something that happens to help the
people because the equality between a black and white male is not equal. The
Past is the past, and more than 50 percent of (21 of 41) of college students,
and most DAS respondents used that story line when discussing issues with
Affirmative Action (Bonilla-Silva Page 77). The statically facts were from well educated
people who believes that equality is working system for everyone in the United
States. It makes me wonder how many people truly are affected with the concept
of colorblindness. The unemployment is different because it varies from
different ethnicity, and people are not given a fair shot at advancing in their
careers. The Glass Ceiling Effect is where women have a difficult time
advancing in their careers, but gender and race are two separate issues in the
work place. Many people acknowledge the
fact men and woman are treated differently in economic stance, but not so much
with race.
People do minimize race because
they do not believe that discrimination is no longer a central factor affecting
minorities’ life choices (Bonilla-Silva Page 29). It does affect minorities and the
colorblindness does affect society. People care because the issues that may
seem trivial from a more privileged perspective—like whether Selena Gomez wears
a bindi—are often coded on bodies because of cultural histories and shared
experiences of other communities (Makarechi Kia, 2014). When people minimize
issues like ethnicity or race its offensive. Racism is racism no matter what is
not trying to be said but it is there in the air that you breathe. It’s the
concept of minimizing that so many people see in the media all the time
affecting young people and continuing the traditional of colorblindness with
people. It is difficult to understand when perception is what it seems to be,
but in reality it is not normal. It puts people down and when people use
cultural racism to explain why things are the way they are without realizing
the reality of life for minorities. Diane believes in the most qualified to get
into college and if someone can’t is because it’s only on that other person who
never learned (Bonilla-Silva Page 33).
Using a stereotype to explain how institution should work is not
intelligent to defend your response. Tolerance and acceptance are desirable,
but they are not a substitute for understanding. They are relevant for getting
along with others in the world, but understanding is a next level and is
essential with regards with race and ethnicity (Jefferson M Fish 2014). One day
I was at a local coffee shop just listing in to a man’s conversation with a few
friends of his. He was talking about part time jobs he has had in the past. He
was talking about one in particular that he was calling his coworkers lazy. He mentioned that were lazy
Mexicans and that is what made them lazy.
Now I do not understand how his coworkers were lazy if they had worked
with this young man; is the definition of lazy: work; but it is not. It’s these
words people hear over in over again with colorblind racism and racism is still
in form in America.
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