"Safe spaces rarely exist in schools for adults or children to explore race, especially when Whites- who tend not to think of race all that often - determine agendas, and teachers from other backgrounds become used to the absence of talk about race, or are convinced they will not be heard." This quote struck the biggest chord with me in this chapter. That it is politically correct to not see color. All people are the same and should be treated as such. When that is just an escape from reality, these children have experienced racism and it is a real part of their lives that needs to be confronted and questioned. Otherwise, it will never change and they will believe the world is full of white bigots.
Futhermoore, my sentiment is that there is racism out there, but the real issue is classism. Racism validates many minorites position in society and gives a justification for their position but the real issue is they are there because others don't want any level of financial eqaulity in this country but because they are afro-american, its just a scapegoat to me.
Quote I like:
As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bougie Mother-F**kers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole.
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Very good points and quote. I have said exactly the same thing in several of my posts in the past. It is more about money than it is about race. In America, wealth equals power, and it just so happens that the vast majority of the wealthy upper class is composed of Whites. We talk about social and finacial inequity, and yet as a country many Americans are not willing to do what it takes to achieve it. When you look at the industrialized countries that have larger middle classes than us (Norway, Sweden) they sustain that by taxing the rich heavily. For some reason here in America, many people believe in the "trickle down" economy where the rich receive breaks and than this is supposed to benefit the lower classes. Well it isn't working, or else America would not have the smallest middle class out of all the major industrialized nations. It is my opinion that if these socioeconomic inequities are ever going to be solved, we must first start by broadening the middle class.
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