Racism Post #2
Instead of finding a single article, I found an entire racist website, which can be found here. (Hope this is okay, Mr. Wasserman) If you are easily offended, please do NOT click that link, and furthermore, please don’t come whining to me about it. Initially, I was disgusted that such a website exists, but after toying with the idea for a while, I came to realize that I wasn’t very surprised at all. I decided to try to dig a little deeper into why I wasn’t very surprised. It was over 100 years ago that slavery came to an end in the United States. A big mistake people often make with this is the assumption that with the end of slavery did NOT come the end of racism. In fact, now that I think about it, racism is a huge part of America, whether anyone chooses to face it or not. From police profiling to economics and job oppurtunities–racism is prevalent in the United States to day. It happens every day; some instances more subtle and subconcious than others. It is something our country will never be able to rid itself of, unless major policies are changed. The actual site above is filled with current events, rewritten from [very different] perspectives than what most are used to. Perhaps this site is an example of satire, and the creators simply want to show Americans that racism is still around and active (probably not, though). We see racism every day, in many different forms. Maybe that’s why I wasn’t so surprised.
December 20th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
How’d you find that? I had to navigate away really quickly, as I got pretty ill.
From what I saw, though, sites like this aren’t the big problem these days. Anyone can see that the people who write for the site are bigots. The problem is the subtle racism of everyday life. What are we going to do about that?