I definitely do not believe that we
are in a post racial society. I believe that a post racial society means that
we live in a world where people don’t see race when they look at a person, but
rather their personality. Today, race is everywhere; you fill it out on medical
forms, informational forms and applications when you are applying to college.
If today’s society why does it matter? Race should have no bearing on whether
or not your intelligence can get you in, not based on your race. If race wasn’t
part of today’s society there wouldn’t be blogs such as “My fear of a black
president”. Obama’s race has absolutely
no effect on his ability to rule or country but for some reason people can’t
see past that. There was a huge campaign that Obama was from Kenya and faked his citizenship, people are so ignorant to think that just because he is Black means he is from Africa.
Take the book Boderlands
by Gloria Anzaldua’s book written in 1999. This was only 14 years ago but still
you can see the absolutely terrible struggle that Gloria has to go thorough
being a Hispanic woman in the United States. She is frequently discriminated
against and doesn’t receive equal opportunities because of her race. Today this
still exists. People say that interracial marriage is accepted, but is it
really? One in seven marriages is between people of different races but what
about those other six out of seven marriages, could they be missing out on true
love just because they don’t want to cross racial guidelines? If race wasn’t an
issue in today’s society we wouldn’t have this class. Even though we talked a
bit about the history of racial tension we talked a lot about current events.
The essays were so easy and enjoyable to write because I was writing about
stuff I knew about, things I could relate too. Examples of racial tension are
everywhere.
I wrote my entire last prompt about
racism in social media such as twitter, clearly showing that this is a huge
problem. Sadly there is enough to write about that an entire class can write
different prompts all about racist tension.
