Reflection On Race Relations

The story witness is a very interesting story.And in the book Esther hirsh is one of the main character. she is 6 years old. She is important because she is not racist. The Author shows how esther is funny in the book. I think she didn’t change from beginning to end. because she is not racist at the beginning till the end.

My Grandmother, born in Lafayette, Louisiana, is African, French, and Native American. The origin of our Cajun ethnic group can be traced back to the Acadians who were mostly French Speakers coming from Acadia (Klingler, Thomas and Chantal 275). Currently, the population of Cajuns has a great social impact in Louisiana. Their presence in the community led to the interaction with other ethnic groups such as the Africans in which they shared common resources (Klingler, Thomas and Chantal 275). The result of the interaction was therefore intermarriages and the sharing of various social facilities such as churches that led to the emergence of improved cultures. The diversity of the cultures

In the article, “What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’,” Ta-Nehisi Coates asserts that the idea of race is that “puts hundreds pf millions under domination” (Coates, p. 3). The definition of race is “the classification of humans into groups based on physical traits, ancestry, genetics or social relations, or the relations between them.” Liberals often say “truly stupid things like race has to biological element” (Coates, p. 6). William Z. Ripley wrote a story which desired to “delineate racial difference through head type” (Coates, p. 4). Coates states that “race does not need biology. Race only requires some good guys with big guns looking for a reason” (Coates, p. 6). Race is just a social construct and “is an idea, not a

My tummy grumbled that lunch was still minutes away. I tried my best to pay attention to my friend as he read aloud the list of ideas for the next Black Student Union meeting.

The book became a classic in modern high school and college classroom settings. It is one of the most popular books that Beverly Daniel Tatum has written. In this case, the main point in the book is the development of racial identity as well as the challenges that one may face when attempting to hold a meaningful conversation regarding race. The author wants to engage the audience in an excellent conversation about race and she does this by allowing the time for the communication with the self. The examples deployed in this context are from her experiences as a professor at the college and as a parent.

When we talk about race it generally means the color of a person’s skin, or their physical traits. These traits can lead to them being a different religion, heritage and obviously race or skin color. Race has life-or-death consequences and we prove it to not be deterministic. Ethnocentrism is the judgment of others groups by one’s own standards and values (Conley 326.) Ethnocentrism is what explained why historical efforts were so biased. When speaking about race its people or a group of people that all have their own features, mainly physical and that sets them apart from each other. Everyone has their own ethnicity and that is something everyone has in common. Sociologists argue this construction concept that it’s something that was created to show

Romeo tells Tybalt, “I do protest I never injur’d thee, but love thee better than thou canst devise” (162). Romeo tells Tybalt he loves him but cannot tell him the reason why, the reason being they are technically family now through his marriage to Juliet. Mercutio grows frustrated because Tybalt calls Romeo a villain, Mercutio believes Tybalt should not get away with being so insulting. Romeo reacts to being called a villain by saying “I love you so I don’t care that you called me a bad name. But you clearly don’t know me very well, goodbye!” He brushes off the comment while Mercutio is infuriated by it. This of course leads to Mercutio and Tybalt’s battle.

The women’s right movement commenced in 1843 in Seneca Falls, New York; it sparked the women’s revolution granting them equal rights. In 1920, females were finally given a voice. However, African American women attained suffrage until the 1970’s. One woman named Sojourner Truth petitioned for all women regarding women’s rights with her famous speech “Ain’t I a woman?” delivered at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. Truth argued that all girls’, specifically African American ladies ought to possess the same freedoms as men, given that women were just as capable as men in doing the exact same thing. Furthermore, the speaker elaborated how she did the same servitude as a man did and maybe even more, since the speechmaker was a slave at one point. The reason why Truth’s message resonates is because she establishes credibility with her use of pathos, ethos, logos, repetition, allusion, and juxtaposition by announcing that a man is contradicting himself on a statement he pronounced. All throughout her speech, the speaker keeps true to her message that females of all ages shall have the equal amount of privileges as men and that

This simple nine word quotation from Matshona Dhliwayo summarizes much of what Jane Elliot has spent her entire career trying to get people to understand. Watching the film, The Essential Blue Eyed, gave me an entirely new perspective on racism and in truth, showed how ignorant I had been. Jane Elliot is able to give study participants and viewers a completely new perspective on the social construction of race.

As one can see in the speech given by Sojourner Truth in 1851, “Ain’t I a Woman”, she believes that women’s right and, even more specifically, African American women’s right are extremely important. In her speech presented in Akron, Ohio, she takes many points of her opponents and finds counterclaims to rebut them. She uses points such as how she has been treated compared to how other woman have been treated, the lack of intelligence the men assume she has, and she even poses the question of where Christ came from to rebut one of their points. While addressing these topics she uses a very clever strategy, of taking the arguments against her to make the point of how they would not be relevant. As the reader can see, Truth makes excellent points

something I had learned to do on my own growing up, and also enjoyed doing was Braiding and styling hair/ Throughout my high school years I was a known as a hair braider I had many of my friends and family members coming to me to get their hair done. Once graduating from high school I pursued a career as a hairstylist, I wanted to learn how doing all type hair. Enrolling in Redondo Beach cosmetology school would center me in a diverse environment majority-white, so I can obtain the skills of learning how to do other ethnicity hair. Unfourthhnetly I wasn’t mentally prepared to experience racism among new millennium in the hair industry.

After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. In April of 1968, a third grade teacher from a small, whites only town of Riceville, Iowa walked into class confounded and disturbed. The class had recently made Martin Luther King Jr. The hero of the month. Therefore, the students and Ms. Elliot could not fathom why anyone would want to harm Mr. King. The assassination made her decide to teach her students a very challenging lesson on the significance of the word discrimination. This lesson would show the students how it felt to be discriminated against, and how it changed individuals.

Throughout my childhood, I never recieved many direct messages regarding my racial identity. I was never truly exposed to the idea of racial identity until the age of around 11. The sheltered community I grew up in, Hinsdale, was 94% Caucasian when I was born. In turn, many of the male adults in Hinsdale were, and still are, in the center margin. This created a general silencing regarding race, teaching me that I am not supposed to discuss race, which is evidently false. Not only did the members of my distant community not directly or indirectly discuss race, but my parents never had a distinct conversation with me about it.

What is one of the main reasons people come to America? The United States of America is advertised as a place where everyone is equal with equal opportunities. Americans strive for equality, but it has not fully been reached. Today, some white Americans have more privileges than African Americans, and some African Americans have more privileges than other races. Things such as jobs, scholarships, colleges, and news media focus on the difference of races. These dividing factors put a bigger strain on the racism in America. The truth is that both African Americans and white Americans have their own advantages and disadvantages in today’s society. The strain between black and white people has been blown out of proportion in the recent years by the races and media.

There’s an old saying that “sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” In reality, that saying is wrong. Words hurt a person as much as punch or a kick can. It may not hurt someone physically, but it can scar someone mentally and emotionally. Due to the topics they are associated with, certain words or phrases can elicit strong reactions; some are positive, while others are negative but nonetheless, they all leave an impact on people. Today in class, we discussed a topic that is deeply engraved in American history yet widely avoided by many: race. More specifically, terms like “racist,” “All Lives Matter,” and “white privilege,” which may make some people uncomfortable but more than ever, need to be confronted and examined. We watched several videos containing a variety of people discussing their own personal thoughts and feelings on such terms to spark our own conversations on the same topics.