Where We Stand Class Matter Essay

Why Should People Of Color Use Racism as Motivation?

We live in a world where racisms is still alive, we’re just concealing. People always avoid this topic because it’s out of everyone comfort zone and it’s provocative to discuss about it. But in the book “Where we stand: Class Matters,” by Bell Hooks she’s brave enough to takes her chance explaining her difficulties with racism because of her race. In this society majority black Africans American are consider lower class. Although it’s proven statically yet no race should be define as a whole. Hooks movement up the ladder proved everyone that black students are just intelligent as a white students. They just need opportunities instead of being classified.

Hooks had to face classism and racism at all white-school, her classmates made her feel she didn’t belong in that environment, and she believed. Later attending Stanford University her parents was afraid she’d be exposed once again to racial abuse and upper class institution. Hooks knew she had to confront racial abuse if she would have any chance being successful. She used those encounters as motivation and trusted the process that she would only benefit from all

Majority of people of color who don’t attend college, justify their reason with excuses after excuses, college is a waste of time, or I can’t afford college. They are blinded by the financials and resources around them because they don’t want the same expectation from their parents as a white students parents have for their children. People of color are afraid to fail and they don’t feel right in the environment where racism is still alive. Different from Hooks, she used that racism in school as motivation to climb up the ladder. She believed her abilities would take her far, and she used racism as a tool to prove them wrong that belonged with the upper