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Blacks and Whites Define Word "Racism' Differently 

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Blacks and Whites Define Word "Racism' Differently 

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Discrimination to white people does exist as the same of black people, but on different views, blacks and whites are two worlds apart. Working class white people are much more likely to feel discriminated against. But the perception of discrimination correlates across races with success and wealth. The poorer you are, the more likely you are to feel discriminated against. African-Americans have the highest perception of discrimination. African-Americans blame individual prejudice over government policy, while white people blame individual prejudice over laws. America isn't divided racially so much as it’s divided culturally between big, powerful coastal cities and the struggling towns of the heartland, we have become a broken multicultural society where most people are convinced that other races have it in for them.

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When I first saw the title of this article, the first question that came to my mind was: are things better now? and while I was reading this article I came to the conclusion that yes! Racism have got a lot better than the older days, we are doing better than chattel slavery, we are doing better than legal segregation. In this day and age you don't have to hide your relationship with someone of the opposite race unless you're ashamed of them. People are more outgoing, courageous and have a higher self-esteem than before (connection with the friendship between Huck and Jim, Huck at first was scared of what society thought about but then he realize that he was doing good). But even though we had getting better, we still have a long way to go, there seems to be a high level of acceptance; however, there still is a great deal for people to learn.

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This journal is more connected with history, and how African-Americans helped to change the world, like in the war time they helped as servants for the military, but not just that their movement to fight for their rights and liberty shaped the American culture. For most of the American history, legal and social discrimination shaped and denied Africans-Americans access to education and literacy. Institutionalized discrimination combined with rich African and slave traditions contributed to the retention and cultivation of a strong oral tradition that survives to this day in the African American experience. In this way, the strong oral tradition that permeated black history continues to enrich the religious, political, and business worlds of the African American experience and continues to transform mainstream American culture and experience. Black people matters and helped to make a change in the world as white people did it.

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In this article of the newspaper written by Harold Doug talks about the Native mascot controversy. Even thought there is people that often their intention is to honor Native Americans (by referring to positive traits, such as fighting spirit and being aggressive, brave, stoic, dedicated, and proud), most of the time people  see these traits as being based upon stereotypes of Native Americans as savages and this issue is discussed in the media only in terms of the offensiveness of certain terms, images, and performances to individuals of Native American heritage, which tends to reduce the problem to one of feelings and personal opinions. This article kinda connects with the slam poem What Kind of Asian are you by like saying all stereotypes, whether positive or negative, are harmful because they promote false or misleading associations between a group and an attribute, fostering a disrespectful relationship.

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Exposing and Challenging the Subtler Dynamics on Modern Racism

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Exposing and Challenging the Subtler Dynamics on Modern Racism

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The same systems that disadvantage and marginalize African-Americans confer privileges on the white middle class, privileges that are hard for those who benefit to see or acknowledge.According to many people, being white gives you more ways to be always look great for the world, they have more opportunities than black people. According to many people sometimes  "white privileged" is what make black people seem  bad, just because the are color people, white people think that they are the responsible of what happen like robbers, drugs, etc... but let's see it from this point of view, yes when a black family moves to a white neighborhood, they can be harassed or people are not nice to them, but....have someone ever think what happens when the opposite happens, when a white family moves to a black neighborhood and yeah it happens the same, white people can be discriminated by black people and also can be harassed..... White skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do, create or enjoy on purpose. Unlike the more overt individual and institutional manifestations of racism described above, white skin privilege is a transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society.

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"Of course race has to do with it--we're talking about a white cop killing a Black teenager outside St. Louis," I practically screamed through a text message.

It was within a day or two of Mike Brown's killing by Darren Wilson and I'd been going back and forth with a white friend about the incident. The way institutional racism works means every time a cop interacts with someone, but perhaps especially a Black teenager in a Confederate state, race is implicated. I didn't need to know anything about Darren Wilson to understand this, he didn't even need to be white for it to be true. The neighborhoods we live in, our access to a quality education, unemployment rates, the quality of water we drink, the quality of air we breathe, the number and quality of home, automotive, and business loans available to us, the amount of wealth we hold, how we're treated by medical professionals, the odds of legal repercussions for using or dealing drugs, the impacts of poverty, criminal convictions, or dropping out of high school, the likelihood society will perceive us as suspect or criminal, the roots of policing itself, and of course, our dealings with the police--including fatal ones--are all shaped by institutional racism. When you benefit from your race in each of those situations, as white people do, it's easy to take those privileges for granted, or to assume they exist for everyone.

They don't. The world is not just.

And the flip side of our privilege, as it is in each of the above examples, is often oppression. Yet, talking to my friend he felt I was jumping to conclusions to say race had anything to do with Mike Brown's tragic killing. We should wait until they (other cops and predominantly white-owned and operated media) could research Darren Wilson's history for overt racist acts like using racial slurs, emailing racist jokes, or affiliation with a hate group like the KKK, he said. My friend's inability to immediately recognize the racial implications of Mike Brown's killing is emblematic of some pervasive and problematic viewpoints white people tend to hold regarding racism in the modern United States.

1. We see it as a moralistic, individualized, and interpersonal issue.

2. We only believe in its existence when it manifests overtly.

3. We think institutional racism is a thing of the past that no longer impacts our lives.

Because of those common societal misconceptions about racism, there's an insidious and all-too-prevalent belief that white people who aren't engaging in blatant racist acts don't abet the fortification of white supremacist power structures. This mythos allows certain expressions of racism to fester uncontested, perpetuating an oppressive racial hierarchy that places whiteness at its peak. Antiracists need to get better at finding ways to tease out and confront this subtler style of racism that's common today. Of course we need to continue challenging blatant racist acts, jokes, slurs, opinions, entertainment, knowledge production, pedagogy, journalism, workplace practices, presidential candidates and their supporters, and so on. But there are severe limitations when that approach is our main focus. Most significantly, it's restricted to catching racist outbursts and mindsets as they manifest, rather than proactively working to uncover, correct, and prevent them. This leads to inaction, which benefits the racially stratified status quo. Ultimately, like we saw with my old buddy, this allows the pervasive effects of institutional racism to evade our notice.
Understanding Racism In 2016

Racial attitudes change with time, as do the harmful ways they manifest and need to be opposed. A few decades ago calling out public displays of racism was a significantly braver and more exceptional act than it is in 2016. And while it remains essential, white antiracists need to expand our repertoire beyond this responsive approach. Last month I proposed the Platinum Rule as one possible way of going about this, and best practices will vary based on a number of dynamics and individual situations. But since almost all white people have at least some white peers, friends, and family, let's consider a few ways we can seek to reveal and challenge today's subtler racism in the white people closest to us, and to motivate them to take action to dismantle white supremacist power structures.

One place to begin is examining your family history. If you're white, there's no doubt it's rife with examples of ways historic access to white privilege offers you inherited benefits. By understanding the systems of power and historic legacies of whiteness working to your advantage--regardless of your individual actions, desires, and motivations--you can better understand how those same systems of power and historic legacies marginalize Others. Learning about your family's historic institutional advantages shines light on the institutional disadvantages faced by nonwhite people.

Did your family choose to immigrate to the US rather than come in bondage, fleeing imperial or colonial violence, or get displaced by the arrival of whites on the continent? Mine did. Did your family immigrate to the US at a time when some nonwhite people were denied the opportunity? Mine did. Did your family purchase a home in a segregated neighborhood that offered them a boost into the middle class that denied Black families? Mine did. Did your family get a home loan during a time that loans systematically denied many nonwhite people? Mine did. All of these aspects of my genealogical timeline come with heritable gains due to nothing other than my whiteness. Being cognizant of this doesn't mean I'm ashamed of things beyond my control, it simply means I'm aware of my head start.

Make no mistake, though. Institutional racism, along with white supremacy and its white privilege byproduct, aren't ancient history. Or history at all. Do you have a white-sounding name? Me too. That makes the odds much better we'll get a call back for a job, while someone with a Black-sounding name is deprived of the opportunity. Are you white and plan to take out a home loan in your lifetime (or already have)? Lucky us. Or more accurately, systematically-advantaged us. The rate on our loans will be/is better due to our whiteness--especially compared to the rates given to Black women--a reminder of the intersectional nature of oppression. The same is true for the rates of auto loans.

Recognizing ways we benefit from our whiteness reveals the institutions underlying these advantages. This, ideally, will compel us to support and work towards making radical changes to those institutions.

Challenging Racism In 2016

One aspect of white privilege is the invisibility of whiteness (paywall), so we need to instigate conversations about race with white people who don't usually have them. Social media isn't a helpless medium for having these discussions, but it can be a frustrating space. My advice for when you're talking to someone who is being willfully obtuse is to use their comments to highlight why they're problematic, rather than directly argue with them. This is helpful for people observing the discussion, and far less frustrating and ineffectual for you than working to convince the un-convincible. Dialogue with people who you're connected to beyond social media is more likely to yield productive results regardless of the medium. Take the time to do this. I know it's something I can do more of. We need to sit with the discomfort. We need to be willing to risk relationships. Our failure to have these conversations is more than merely uncomfortable for people impacted by racism, it's deadly. Having an awkward chat about race with white friends, coworkers, and family is the least we can do.

We also need to make sure we're finding ways to challenge people who promote race erasure (aka colorblind racism), embrace racialized paternalistic views, and otherwise perpetuate systems of oppression either tacitly, unintentionally, or without reflection. It's not at all uncommon for white activists in radical circles, the academy, or otherwise organizing around issues of social justice to harbor and espouse problematic views on race. Rather than ignoring these subtler aspects of racism to shoot fish in a barrel challenging the overt and resolute racism more commonly found on the Right, white antiracists should focus on reeling in white people who are more likely to view themselves as, or to be potential members, of antiracist coalitions. I've never been a believer in the notion that we need to convince outright racists to stop being racist so much as we need to convince people who view themselves as non-racists to commit to becoming antiracists.

And finally, we need to animate other white people to challenge problematic behavior in white spaces, to listen to people from marginalized communities, and to engage in antiracist education, activities, reflection, discussions, demonstrations, and events. Action begets action, and we need to compel one another to act.

One way to do this is to model it.

I was never quiet about social, economic, and racial justice, but after August 9, 2014 -- the day an unarmed Mike Brown was gunned down by Darren Wilson and left on the street for over four hours -- I've been increasingly involved in radical activist circles, and even more vocal and forceful with friends, family, and strangers, both online and in person, discussing these issues. (All love and praise to The People of Ferguson who took to the streets and compelled many of us to such action.) And what I've seen in the time since is friends and family I never would've expected to see discussing racism posting, liking, and commenting on articles and stories that delve into the subject.

I'm not suggesting this is the result of my influence, and certainly my action has been motivated by antiracists who act as role models for me. I don't know what my impact has been on those around me, but there seems to be little question that as we become more emboldened so do those around us. The more we speak up, share articles, books, speeches, and other communiques about racism (seek out Black and/or authors of color), the more we talk about how we benefit from white supremacist power structures, the more we can help other white people understand the nearly infinite number of ways they benefit as well. And, ultimately, move toward changing both the undergirding attitudes that perpetuate this system of white supremacy, and tearing down its institutional infrastructure.

There's no shortage of things that we can relate from our own lives and family history that might be revelatory to white friends across the political spectrum regarding how they too benefit from their whiteness, and in turn, how nonwhites are oppressed by it. Plenty of whites remain oblivious, comfortable believing the myth that good intentions or an absence of explicitly racist beliefs and actions absolve us of harboring racial animus or benefitting from our whiteness, which consequently only reifies white supremacy. It's time we step back, reconsider the varying ways racism manifests in 2016, and get on the offensive, rather than relying on the reactive tactics of yesteryear.

(All photography by Jesse Benn)

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Exposing and Challenging the Subtler Dynamics of Modern Racism

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"Of course race has to do with it--we're talking about a white cop killing a Black teenager outside St. Louis," I practically screamed through a text message. It was within a day or two of Mike Brown's killing by Darren Wilson and I'd been going back and forth with a white friend about the incident.

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 Norman and Tehran on younger generations using the word

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 Norman and Tehran on younger generations using the word

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This video connects with the slam poem What kind of Asian are you? talking about stereotypes and how they are the biggest issue, trying to put labels on black people, like if they are trying to make a difference when everyone is equal. One of the most common stereotype to black people is that they are drug dealers, when not all black people is like that is just a group of people, but not all of them. Sometimes white people tries to use the N-word, to make feel pain over a black people, and the youngest generations learn based on what adults say, but that is not what we wanna teach to them. We need to make a difference, we need to change and teach our youngest generation that there is not labeled on people, yes there is bad black people around the wold, but also there is bad white people, as just there is good black people and also good white people. We should give us the opportunity to meet new people of different races and learn from them because not all of them are bad.

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The n-word: An interactive project exploring a singular word

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After the National Football League made the controversial decision to ban the n-word on the field this year, a team of Washington Post journalists explored the history of the word, its evolution and its place in American vernacular today.

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Morrison,while she was reading the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, had some reactions making a really interesting point, in which each person is different and has different ways they can take the book. For example, when I first start reading the book I knew the controversy that caused the N-word but for me it was like something common read that word (and even sometimes hear it) because from where I came from that word is common, and is not considered a insult. Also the point she makes about how Huck had a "external chaos" whether or not it was the right thing to do, and his inability to interact with racist people shows that he did not know nothing about life and Jim was the key point for him, because with Jim he learned to live with fear and sadness, and also we have to remark that Jim and Huck's relationship doomed to the end.

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This story makes a big point in society showing how bullying can be a big problem on a person, in this case Junior, all the struggles that he had to pass highlighting the effects of racism can have on a growing person. Sometimes not because you have the same skin tone as someone else does not mean that you are friends with that person or you have mutual respect to each, like Alexis shows in this story, Junior did most of his education surrender by Indians and he always was bullied. This story a makes a connection in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, because as the way people played tricks on Junior, making him feel down, is the same way how Huck and Tom treated Jim just because he was a slave, making tricks on him and abused of his superstitions beliefs.

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FIRST GRADE / My hair was too short and my U.S. Government glasses were horn-rimmed, ugly, and all that first winter in school, the other Indian boys chased me from one corner of

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This poem made me think in my own experience, that when you go to a new place that don't speak your own language things can get scary, but when you really need it people will help you. This make a point in society, the idea of community where compassion, food, tradition, and commonality are shared. We are living in a world that is made of us, and just us can make a difference in it, like being kind and making connections with other people that maybe are not from our same culture, but we could get to know new things and expand our diversity and knowledge.

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Stereotypes is one of the biggest problem in the world with the typically undying questions that people from other cultures like Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are asked over and over. Most of the common questions from people to ask is What Kind of (any continent you are from) are you?, people ask this as if someone from other continent are products to be labeled, categorized, or lumped together. It is like if they want to know the surface while neglecting the truth underneath,the struggles and the injustices that comes along with a question that seems so simple to those who are unaffected by the sacrifices of our parents and grandparents.

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Alex Dang - "What Kind of Asian Are You?" (NPS 2013)

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