Post-Reading Week 5: Color Blind Racism

• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva refers to Color Blind Racism is "racism lite" because whites are trying to hide or erase they structural privilege with the minorities. For example, whites have a lot of disparities against minorities because "it's a natural phenomena", or because "they're just lazy and incooperative in the society or the community." One point that really hit me is that they claim "Asians got in the higher level like us, so everyone can do it too." It's basically saying that it all depends on minorities' actions and their enthusiasm to get in the level were the whites are in. Also, "racism lite" claim that we're all equal now, so all the problem about race will be gone but it's just an act, whites are still on the top on the power of hierarchy.
• Defining racist or racism means power plus privilege. So in this video that we watched in class I think it can't be racist because the girl in the video is not white, which means that she can't be racist. But with the portrayal that she did in this video she can be racist about copying how the whites act or a white girl. She's trying to prove that whites are using words that can hurt the people of color's feeling like "ghetto" and "urban", while trying to imitate how whites talking vulgarly. 
• I think whites are the ones who benefit with the colorblind racism. Adding into Wise's argument on how before 1950's and Overt Racism is practiced and now Colorblind Racism is practiced. Colorblind racism is more obvious that Overt Racism. Whites benefit from Colorblind racism because they can hide their privileges by making the society believe that it's all because of the minorities' fault and the economic disparity in the community.
• Some of the examples of using colorblind racism by whites are: "It all occurs naturally, repeating itself", "Because they're not as hard-working as we do", "Asians got it, how come you don't?", "It's because you are lazy and didn't care about your child, that's why the drop-out rates for people of color have increased over time." These are some examples of rebuttals that are happening in the society now. I think the main argument in colorblind racism is that they don't want people to advance like them because the fear of they're going to loose power when they give them the same opportunities like the whites start with. 
• Obvious indicative of CBR: At a dinner party in the suburbs, the discussion turns to the problems in urban One of the participants responds, “I don‟t want to sound racist but, it is going to be difficult to change the schools when those parents just don‟t care what their children are doing in class” This example is obvious that it tends to CBR because they're blaming the people of color that they don't care about parent-meeting and so because of that the whites tries to hide or take away their self into being targeted by people in their society. " Two students get into a fight at school. The Latino student calls the white student a „cracker‟, and gets suspended for hate speech. This was kind of confusing for me because I thought it was just straight-up racism but it's not because it's also an example of color blind racism. Whites are okay with minorities calling them names because so the people of color wouldn't see that they have the privilege of being bigots at the same time having power. 
• When people talks about diversity, it's usually a positive connotation without trying to say the word "race" in it. This is a problem because they're trying to avoid race so they won't be called a racist. 
• We study Colorblind racism because it's important for all the minorities to have equal opportunities that are actually given to them. Also, the power that relates to whites in the society. Social justice is also targeted by colorblind racism because I remember in one of the discussion we had in class, African Americans or other minorities are the ones being stopped by a police so i think that's unfair to people of color.
• I think CBR is a useful tool in understanding race because it gave me an insight on what's really happening in the society nowadays. And to understand more about the struggles of people color. 
• I feel like I'm more aware of the society now about how the claim of power is unfair to minorities and people of color. I feel more literate knowing that racism still exist in the community now.  
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