When someone thinks a person is going t act a certain way because of their skin color or better yet, their race, it is a form of racial profiling. Just because you profile other races that does not mean you are races. Everyone does it when you think about it, but when you act a certain way that represents discrimination or harmful acts torwards that indiivisual or group, that is when it becomes racism. It is not always the person's fault for acting the way they do, most blame should go to the person's immediate family first, then the community, and last the media and money. All of these factors have a tremendous influence on how people view other races; the other factor is the person's own knowledge, but even that could be altered and poisoned to think or do the worst.
Most racist people grew up in a racist enviornment, maybe their parents can't let go of the past and have embeded their racist ways and beliefs on the next generation of their family, or maybe their close friends have an influence on how they view other races. The other factor- which is a huge contributor of racism- is the media. The media, which most of our economy pays the most attention to, influences people to do damn there everything in their daily lives from figuring out what and where to eat, all the way to what a person should invest their money into. But what we are talking about is racial formation. The media for example, forms African Americans into ganstas, drug dealers and sell outs. Which makes no sense when you sit down and just think about it; it is considered normal for black people to act...BLACK, which means talking slang and acting ghetto, but as soon as they talk proper and wear business atire instead of wearing the Sean Jeans and Jordans, they are labeled from some white people as a "wanna be" and by African Americans as a "sell out". Another thing they might say to a sophisticated black person who talks proper is that he is not being true to themselves.
I blame most of this deception on the media as well as money; they both work hand and hand. Think about this, have you ever seen an all black cast on a television show or movie that was set up like the shows "The Office" or Frazier? No, because it wouldn't make any money. Even though both of those shows are comedies, it wouldn't be a norm in our society to see a whole cast of African American men and women looking and talking sophisticated. Instead they team up a sophisticated character with a funny delinquent who makes fun of the black person talking proper and wearing business suits constantly; as does most most of our society, white and black.
The media taught teaches fear of other races as well as teaching some races to hate themselves. we must learn to look beyond the past so we can move forward, because if we do not, we will end up where we left off, which is where we are today.
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After reviewing your blog page Mike, I felt as though we think in similar ways. I really did not have anything that I disagreed with in your blog because like I said, we had a lot of similar thoughts and ideas.
If I could say one thing about your writing I would say that you are very observant and you display an idea of matrix domination in your writing. I never knew that the voices on Dragon Ball Z were done by women. When you stated that, it put a lot on my mind about America. Something that I found interesting in your blog was when you talked about how when you where younger, you were manipulated by all the shows that Tough Guise spoke about. I felt the same way as a child growing up and to see how these shows are displaying a negative image made me feel upset because I felt trick.
A good definition to tie in with your blog about the exploitation of women would be the word heterosexism. I feel that you could lengthen you blog by talking about heterosexism because it is a word that could be dwelled on for hours. One thing I didn’t understand but would like for you to tell me more about is when you stated that “oppression is like murder”. I kind of knew where you were going with that but I could not get a solid Idea of what you meant by it. Your “I was there” poem did a lot for me.
I feel that a lot of young men these days do not realize, appreciate, or care about what our African American people have been through for us. I tip my hat to you for that. I agree with you when you say that racism is taught and starts with your family. I think that internalized oppression has a lot to do with this because of all the false ideologies displayed by the media.
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