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I found it so interesting that the political parties swing back and forth regarding their messages.  Therefore, this problem is not related to political parties; it is an issue on all sides of the political arena. 

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I found it so interesting that the political parties swing back and forth regarding their messages.  Therefore, this problem is not related to political parties; it is an issue on all sides of the political arena. 

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Nixon said the problem is the blacks (Republican).  Clinton was the president who endorsed the idea of "3 strikes you're out" (which had support from both parties).  This law lead to mass incarcerations; more than any other president (Democrat).
Clinton also created the current racial undercaste with his racial agenda on welfare which changed the welfare system: imposed a 5 year life time limit and banned eligibility for welfare if the person is convicted of a felony.

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I learned everything on my own from peers and my own research.

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I read a very thought provoking post on facebook yesterday titled "How I Discovered I Am White" and I could honestly talk about everything this women wrote but she touched on a particular part of our history and how we've been taught it that really struck me

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I read a very thought provoking post on facebook yesterday titled "How I Discovered I Am White" and I could honestly talk about everything this women wrote but she touched on a particular part of our history and how we've been taught it that really struck me

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" 'The culture of power determines which version of history is told and retold'
Prior to the Women's Right Movement, women were stuck in the home while men went to work and supported them. But then women were liberated and able to get jobs working outside of the home. Right?
WRONG. White, Middle to upper class women were 'stuck in the home.' Women of color always worked outside the home. In fact, women of color were probably working the homes of the white women our history is written.
So one the most oft-repeated, trusted narratives about American history erases the history of women of color. It is dead wrong. They are erased. Non-existent."

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Honestly, when the term was first "introduced" I thought it sounded like a good concept.
Example"Oh I don't see people's skin colors, I judge them for who they are"
But that's just it, people's race and culture is a big part of who they are and we need to notice, accept, and appreciate that.

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Initially, my thoughts that we have been making progress and society's values have and continue to change in a positive manner.
Now, I think of Malcolm X when I think of racial progress. Systemic racism throughout our history has buried the knife deep. I don't know that we are at a place where we are healing yet when we consider the statistics. They still show astounding disparities and inequities.

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Many years ago, I, like the person above, thought this was a nice concept to express the idea that a person was not judging someone solely on their race. Today, I  find this concept ridiculous. I would literally have to be blind to not take note of someone's race, and furthermore, I don't want to ignore a part of someone that is integral to who they are and all the history that comes with it. 

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Many years ago, I, like the person above, thought this was a nice concept to express the idea that a person was not judging someone solely on their race. Today, I  find this concept ridiculous. I would literally have to be blind to not take note of someone's race, and furthermore, I don't want to ignore a part of someone that is integral to who they are and all the history that comes with it. 

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I feel that this is fairly accurate from what I've read so far in the first couple of chapters. When our government seems to allow 🤬 to filter into certain neighborhoods and then institute a not needed policy that takes aim at those with brown or black skin, then I do see this as a sort of caste system. Today we are very much still seeing how often poor whites are fighting to keep their place above those of color. 

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I feel that this is fairly accurate from what I've read so far in the first couple of chapters. When our government seems to allow 🤬 to filter into certain neighborhoods and then institute a not needed policy that takes aim at those with brown or black skin, then I do see this as a sort of caste system. Today we are very much still seeing how often poor whites are fighting to keep their place above those of color. 

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I am finding it funny that padlet censored my use of a word that is a synonym for pharmaceutical above. :-)

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White Privilege. How it is viewed, talked about, etc

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It is not done enough. In the United States, race is critical to one's identity, especially to people of color. I read "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race" (I have the book and an audiobook copy) and have a whole new perspective on racial identity. Throughout my life, race has consumed every second of my life from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. I will elaborate more on that last point if anyone would like at our next meeting.

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Politicians are exploiting immigration and using coded rhetoric. It has been a trend since Operation Wet.back, but I believe it is more visible now more than ever.
However, they still demonize all people of color using coded rhetoric too. They still utilize the "law and order" rhetoric frequently.

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It is the same as colorblindness. Ignoring racial inequities and expecting them to get better is similar to ignoring cancer and expecting it to be cured. Both will only grow and progressively get worse.

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I feel it is still a sensitive subject to talk about when it really doesn't have to be. However,  if it is brought up in the correct ways, such as our discussions during #PC, people can open up and actually voice the questions they may have and that's when people will truly start to learn and open their minds 

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I feel it is still a sensitive subject to talk about when it really doesn't have to be. However,  if it is brought up in the correct ways, such as our discussions during #PC, people can open up and actually voice the questions they may have and that's when people will truly start to learn and open their minds 

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I agree with this. Jim Crow laws were enacted to keep people of color from gaining power and respect after slavery ended, and I feel that mass incarceration does the same thing.

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Caste to me means a group in society that is treated differently. Although there are many successful middle and upper class people of color, I do think that many of them got there despite their skin color. I do think though that it depends on where and in what socioeconomic level a person is raised and the attitudes there.

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I agree. A person’s race might be able to be ignored if we lived in a country where people of color had the same culture and treatment as whites, but that is generally not the case in this country.

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If someone is indifferent to the discrimination based on race in our society, then they are willingly ignorant, and I think that’s a form of racism in and of itself.

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I agree as well. Mass incarceration is the redesigning of laws and systems that keep those of a privileged class in power. The history of the USA is riddled with such systems that have oppressed indigenous groups, slaves and immigrants. From the  1887 General Allotment Act (Dawes Act), Separate but Equal, Jim Crow, Segregation, Truth in Sentencing, Mandatory minimums etc etc.

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Yes, it seems that although the Republican administrations were more aggressive in their strategies to keep people of color from gaining power and respect, the Democratic administrations were not much better.  They are all worried more about white voters, and no wonder when mass incarceration has disenfranchised so many people of color.

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Yes, it seems that although the Republican administrations were more aggressive in their strategies to keep people of color from gaining power and respect, the Democratic administrations were not much better.  They are all worried more about white voters, and no wonder when mass incarceration has disenfranchised so many people of color.

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I teach freshmen about Jim Crow and lynching. We read To 🤬 a Mockingbird, which brings up the history of racism but has nothing from the point of view of a person of color, so I got supplementary materials from Facing History, actual testimony from black men and women of the time about what their lives were like. I think these events are an integral, though ugly, part of American history and they should know about them.

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Yes, definitely. Make America Great Again seems so say, let’s go back to the days when white people could oppress people of color indiscriminately.

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Not enough.

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I recently spoke with a mother of a student of color at our school and she said that he has experienced a lot of racist remarks and treatment and nothing has been done about it

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It’s important to talk about it. Otherwise nothing will change.

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Colorblindness is just another way to walk away and sweep under the rug hundreds of years of oppression and torture. It's a very convenient way to dismiss what has never had to be acknowledged.

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Racial indifference is the same as being complicit in racial matters. To be "racially indifferent" is to continue to condone the systems that keep the system of race in tact.

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Politician have always used the system of race in order to advance their agenda. Most recent example, "Illegal Immigrant"

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There is slightly newer data, but I like how much this website covers.

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On July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, officially banning discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It also ended racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and in general public facilities.

Fifty years removed from that milestone, it's apparently easy to think that we're over racism.

Here are 15 facts that prove that's not the case.
1) Affluent blacks and Hispanics still live in poorer neighborhoods than whites with working class incomes.
An analysis of census data conducted by researchers at Brown University found that income isn't the main driving factor in the segregation of U.S. cities. "With only one exception (the most affluent Asians), minorities at every income level live in poorer neighborhoods than do whites with comparable incomes," the researchers found.

"We cannot escape the conclusion that more is at work here than simple market processes that place people according to their means," their report stated. Along with residential segregation, the study notes, comes access to fewer resources for those in minority neighborhoods.
2) There's a big disparity in wealth between white Americans and non-white Americans.
White Americans held more than 88 percent of the country's wealth in 2010, according to a Demos analysis of Federal Reserve data, though they made up 64 percent of the population. Black Americans held 2.7 percent of the country's wealth, though they made up 13 percent of the population.

Much has been written explaining that the racial wealth gap didn't come about by accident. Among other factors, FHA redlining, restrictive covenants, and exploitative contract selling practices that capitalized on black families' inability to get conventional mortgages all prevented African-Americans from generating wealth through home ownership for much of the 20th century.
3) The racial wealth gap kept widening well after the Civil Rights era.
It nearly tripled between 1984 and 2009, according to a Brandeis study.
4) The Great Recession didn't hit everyone equally.
Between 2007 and 2010, Hispanic families' wealth fell by 44 percent, and black families' by 31 percent, compared to 11 percent for white families.
5) In the years before the financial crisis, people of color were much more likely to be targeted for subprime loans than their white counterparts, even when they had similar credit scores.
The Center For Responsible Lending came to that conclusion after analyzing government-provided mortgage data for the year 2004, supplemented with information from a propriety subprime loan database.

"For many types of loans, borrowers of color in our database were more than 30 percent more likely to receive a higher-rate loan than white borrowers, even after accounting for differences in risk," the authors of the report wrote.

This wasn't a new phenomenon. HUD data from 1998 also showed that predominantly black neighborhoods at every income level had a much greater share of subprime refinance mortgages than predominantly white neighborhoods.
6) Minority borrowers are still more likely to get turned down for conventional mortgage loans than white people with similar credit scores.
An Urban Insititute data analysis found that mortgage denial rates from government-sponsored servicers are higher for black applicants with bad credit than for white applicants with bad credit:
7) Black and Latino students are more likely to attend poorly funded schools.
"A 10 percentage-point increase in the share of nonwhite students in a school is associated with a $75 decrease in per student spending," a 2012 analysis of Department Education data by the Center For American Progress found.
8) School segregation is still widespread.
80 percent of Latino students attend segregated schools and 43 percent attend intensely segregated schools -- ones with only up to 10 percent of white students. 74 percent of black students attend segregated schools, and 38 percent attend intensely segregated schools.
9) As early as preschool, black students are punished more frequently, and more harshly, for misbehaving than their white counterparts.
"Black children represent 18 percent of preschool enrollment, but 42 percent of the preschool children suspended once, and 48 percent of the preschool children suspended more than once," a Department of Education report, released in March, noted.
10) Perceptions of the innocence of children are still often racially skewed.
A study published this year in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that participants estimated black boys to be older and less innocent than white boys of the same age.

When participants were told that the boys, both black and white, were suspected of crimes, the disparity in perceptions of age and innocence became more stark:

Separate research by Stanford psychologists suggests that these kinds of racialized perceptions of innocence contribute to non-white juvenile offenders receiving harsher sentences than their white peers.
11) White Americans use drugs more than black Americans, but black people are arrested for drug possession more than three times as often as whites.
This contributes to the fact that 1 in 3 black males born today can expect to go to prison in their lifetimes, based on current incarceration trends.
12) Black men receive prison sentences 19.5 percent longer than those of white men who committed similar crimes, a 2013 report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission found.
13) A clean record doesn't protect young black men from discrimination when they're looking for work.

Young white men with felony convictions are more likely to get called back after a job interview than young black men with similar qualifications and clean records, a 2003 study published in the American Journal of Sociology found.
14) Black job seekers are often turned away by U.S. companies on the assumption that they do drugs.
The presence of drug testing may actually help to correct this and increase black job seekers' chances, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study released in May.

15) Employers are more likely to turn away job seekers if they have African-American-sounding names.

Applicants with white-sounding names get one callback per 10 resumes sent while those with African-American-sounding names get one callback per 15 resumes, according to a 2003 National Bureau of Economic Research report. "Based on our estimates," the researchers wrote, "a White name yields as many more callbacks as an additional eight years of experience."

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15 Charts That Show The U.S. Isn't Over Racism

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On July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, officially banning discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It also ended racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and in general public facilities. Fifty years removed from that milestone, it's apparently easy to think that we're over racism.

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It goes back to teaching real history and integrating different perspectives into the curriculum. Otherwise, the majority of people only know and have one viewpoint.

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I want to talk more about white identity.

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What do we expect from a voter and what preparations should be expected? At one point only old white dudes with land could vote, and now ostensibly any citizen (clearly limited more than many recognize per Ch. 2). Everyone is prepared to vote to some degree -- they exist here and their opinion matters even if its illinformed.

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It's not an easy subject and there is fear of missteps. It is at the same time essential if we look to grow as a school, community or a nation.