Question F

I would like to respond to the first option for today's blog which is the reading from "Readings for Diversity and Social Justice." Most of the information in the beginning was a repeat of the last week in our discussion. To be entirely honest, There was not anything that I would argue against. This is part because I am open-minded and it is also because when I disagree with a certain idea about discrimination in America, I feel that it is a result of my whiteness upbringing. Whether or not that is true is entirely up for debate (especially in my head).
Notes that I do agree with about the reading are are as follows: race is, obviously, a sociopolitical construction. We naturally as human beings want to categorize everything and it happens that this natural urge creates stereotypes and hierarchy. Racist practices endure in the United States whether or not individuals are aware of it. The legacies of racism continue through entrenched and persistent economic, political, and social disparities. I have not thought much about the idea of nativism in the United States. Clearly, it is a major issue in this country now that illegal immigration is continuously discussed in the news. Just in the fact that the media calls the Mexicans illegal immigrants makes them discriminatory especially when this country was founded on difference or at least the land of difference for whites... unfortunately.
The majority of people live in socially segregated communities as if it is natural for all social groups to naturally gravitate towards each other. I found it interesting a little quote from "Can We Talk?" by Beverly Daniel Tatum. It read: "Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather from what we have not been told. Prejudice is a basic negative categorization developed in all citizens of the country. Such as, I need to be the face of objective reasoning and though it would be nice, most white people are not intellectually superior than any other category of human beings. When will the United States admit that whiteness is not even the majority of its citizens anymore? There will be a revolution in this country if the new white minority does not acknowledge the country needs greater equally politically and economically. Now that's a cause worth fighting for!