Pre-Reading Week 5: Racism Still Unchangeable

• I think racism still occurs because of the inequality of different race when it comes to having the power. As we've discussed in class the definition of racism, racism=power and prejudice. Other racial groups can be bigots but they can't be racist because they don't have the power to be one. While whites are considered racist because they have the power even though they didn't want to consider themselves as racist. 
• The commentators thought that after an African American was elected to become the president of the United States 'racism is dead'. I think they thought that because it's the first African American president that racism would stop and because individuals are not used to people of color like Obama being in a power. As we defined racism being power+prejudice, people think that it violated the real meaning if racism. As oppose to commentators saying 'racism is dead', Dr. Apollon argued that it's not literally dead just because an African American is in power in the United States it doesn't mean that racism is dead. With the ongoing issues of inequality and opportunities given to different race and immigrants different from the whites, then racism is still ongoing in our society. 
• I believe that being racist is not about individual meanness but with the group and the power of the whites have. It's basically about the color of an individual or the race of an individual. The whites are the only ones that can be racist because they are the only ones that have the power. Any race can be bigots about other race but they can't be racist because again racism contains power and prejudice without the power a person or a group can't be racist. I would probably say that to the person that said 'Oh, I don't see color, I just see people individually' that it is the color of the individual. If you're white then you are considered as racist because of the power that they have. I'm not pin-pointing that all whites are racist but based on the discussions in class then whites are considered racist. 
• Diversity is basically about different race and ethnicity living in a community like in San Francisco there can be Whites, African Americans, Asians, Indian Americans, and many more different race. Structural privilege is like an unearned privilege given to whites or males in the community. They are the first pick in opportunities like education, jobs, and resources. The doors are open for them easily while other diverse cultures are set on the 'difficulty level' of the game. 
• I think the parents' idea about the undocumented students should get a 'free lunch' is fair because even though they're undocumented they should get the same opportunity like the documented students. Parents might tell their kids to ignore the issue to be tolerant about the problem. Social justice in this country is tolerated because if the law accept students to have a 'free lunch' then their making action about the inequality but because the parents argues and talks about it then I think the government or the people in power are tolerant. 
• When the people described diversity it almost tied up with the racial differences and the structural privileges. For me diverse is different but I guess in this reading it refers to a non-white race. 

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