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Friday, February 5, 2010
Video lectures: Bell Hooks
I gathered a lot from the videos and i find myself agreeing with many of Hooks ideas. One idea that i agree with is that everyone is affected by racism, and like she says not as a perspective but as an influence. Both white people and black people are still affected by the type of racism that took place in the past. It puts burdens on both whites and blacks because its something that no one wants to remember. It has caused us to be born into these stereotypes that we as a generation were not part of creating. Another point I can agree with is that when you think critically about culture it allows you to see the bigger picture on culture and see things and understand both sides of a situation. I think thinking critically is important. So a question i can ask is, is there anyway to break from the past racism that has stereotyped us all by critically thinking about our culture it has created?
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I really like how you phrased the fact that racism isn't something we as a generation has created. We truly were born into it, as were most of our parents. To answer your question in my opinion I don't believe we'll ever be able to 100% completely break away from what the past effects of racism have done to our culture. I believe this because I come from a town where there are so many racist people and it's not because they hate the other person for their color or heritage, but because they were born into it and are too stubborn to change. That's just how some people are.
ReplyDeleteI think this is ultimatley true. I agree completely. Even if we say we aren't racists, it's just kind of, there? If that makes sense? I mean, it just seems awkward. One of my best friends is black. She's NOT African American, she's black. She honestly gets really offended if she gets called African, because she's NOT.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I totally agree. What has our culture created?
this culture of racism being the elephant in the room but no one wants to think about it or talk about it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is the "elephant in the room." Most of the student responses I've had to hooks, for example, are along the lines of "We're over this already...why do we have to keep talking about it." Are we really *OVER* racism? Or do we just like to pretend that we are?
ReplyDeleteMy belief is that racism is passed from generation to generation. I think that if you grow up in a racist family then you tend to create a perspective about other people. As a culture the US is still has certain divisions of race in that some areas are mostly filled with a particular race which creates stereotypes. I also think that we as a society over analyze things and turn them into race related issues. If everyone thinks in the perspective that race is unimportant, then we can all move passed racism as a society.
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt that there is still racism that lingers around but the issue of racism has gone a long way. I believe that the problem of racism is being fixed but it is just a matter of time. I personally wish that the issue of racism could be corrected immediately but it doesnt work like that. It is an extremely hard thing to change peoples minds but in another sense it really is not. In this sense i mean that if advertising can tell a women what to look like advertising could also preach equality among humans. Now i know that there are ads that preach equality but they affect humans in a slower way than an ad that tells a women how to look. How and why is this? I am not really sure and would like to know the answer. What our culture has created along the lines of racism is a terrible thing and really annoys me. Separate but equal??? What the hell where they thinking when they came up with that?!! How about we are ALL equal. Jeez.. Some world we live in right?
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