"It don't matta if you're black or white"

It's the worst kind, in my opinion. These week we talked about race and how people automatically try to categorize people into a certain race as if that defines who they are. When we did the ball exercise, it was almost frustrating because every time Sal would add a new ball, we would pretty much have to add a category. This relates to races in that we can't put each and every person in the categories of white, black, and brown. We cannot divide them by Caucasian, African American, Asian, or Hispanic. There are so many people with mixed races in them and people with different ethnic backgrounds, which doesn't make them a mutt or miscellaneous, it just makes them an individual human being. We also looked at a chart of people from all over the world. Each person of a different race had a racial slur that another specific race had called them. This just shows that everyone attacks each other, even when we are joking, and it's just wrong. We are all obviously supposed to be on this earth, if we weren't supposed to be, then we wouldn't be! So people just need to accept that there are people like look different than them. On the other hand, people also may have racist tendencies, without even realizing it. We learned that this is called Implicit Racism. When most people are lost, in the city, and all of the suddenly they see a large amount of black people, they suddenly lock their doors and cringe. No matter what race you are, we are trained to automatically cringe in this situation and feel safer in a white neighborhood, run down or not. This type of racism can come about even within the same minority groups. All we do is judge, assume, and stereotype because that is all we are surrounded by. That Slip of the Tongue video was so cool! I love how she told him off after the comment he made about her "make-up." It was a little confusing at times, but her point was pretty clear. She didn't want to be judged by her "ethnic make-up," because she is who she is. It was pretty inspiring.