Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Racism By Bob Blauner s Article, Blacks And Whites Often...

In Bob Blauner’s article he quotes, â€Å"Blacks and whites often talk past one another† (Blauner 57). This statement speaks the truth when discussing how the two races view racism. Whites tend to view racism in a narrow perspective, which involves the idea that racism is interpersonal and that it involves discrimination and prejudice. Blacks view racism in a wider perspective, which involves racism as impersonal, unintentional and apart of the institutions in society. Two students in a racial relations class have a discussion on racism. Bob, a white student has a narrow perspective that includes fallacies. Shontell, a black student argues with Bob and takes her stand on the wider perspective of racism. Bob starts the discussion claiming that the U.S cannot possibly be racist because many celebrities, politicians, millionaires etc. are African-American. Shontell disagrees because that is tokenistic fallacy. As explained by Matthew Desmond in his article, tokenistic fal lacy is the assumption that if blacks are in higher positions they overcame all racial obstacles. This is false because even though many people of color have become wealthy, it does not take into consideration the millions of African-Americans living in poverty. They are living in poverty because of the economic inequalities. This involves not being promoted at his or her job because of the color of his or her skin or not being considered a job at all. To this day, African-Americans still remain disadvantaged.

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