Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama Response

After watching "Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama" I realized that what I have as a white person was inherited through foul play. How the Whites began their wealth in an age when Blacks, Natives Americans, and Chinese were unable to, setting a ripple that continues today, a momentum of a wealth gap with little signs of slowing down. Because of the amount of time between now and then the mindset of White superiority has been ingrained within the consciousness  of the nation to the point where racist thoughts are common place even with non-racists, a Freudian slip sort of speak. A slip of the tongue or thought that enforces the racial biases everyone embodies. For example, when ever a bus full of African Americans arrive at the restaurant that I work at order I always assume that the majority of those customers want some form of chicken, the same with Asians and fish and ect. Why do I think that? Most of the time this is true but at the same time I am subconsciously focusing on the orders that include chicken and fish and in my mind this confirms the stereotype that I was presented even though they might have ordered the same amount of burgers, the fact that they ordered said racial foods overrides that fact. While this is not a negative thought, well at least I'd hope not, of a certain race, it is still a racially biased thought. These biased thoughts that people have can have more consequences than a couple of extra chicken sandwiches, lives can change from biased opinions based on race. White privilege again is an issue, when the blind sentence the seeing based on illusioned conjecture, how can we see this as fair? Again looking back at White Privilege and Power, Blacks are less likely to obtain jobs or degrees based on the color of their skin. Whites have no such obstacles and see everything as fine, as they continue life with little to no speed bumps while the Blacks take the lower unpaved road, a road that was neglected by early society, a road that the Whites did not see to pave, instead paving their own roads with the unwilling help of the Blacks. The highway of society is paved by those with power, White power, taking advantage of the other races to use as labor. This highway that we have now is improving in the ares that need improving but not at an acceptable rate. The momentum set foot centuries ago is slowing down but it will not stop anytime soon.

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