Blog Post #4
Welcome back to my blog! Last time, you read about the author’s purpose in the book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? . I explained that while she does have the overall argument that there is still quite a bit of racism, the real purpose of the text is to educate people on why there is still racism, and where it may be hiding, even though we may not see it. Today, I want to connect her purpose of educating about the issue with some examples from my lifetime, as current as possible, to support her purpose. In the book, Tatum focuses much less on large, clearly racist happenings, and more on smaller, everyday hints of racism in everything we do, whether we are aware of it or not. She mentions the underlying racism in our language, how we think of others, and how we think of ourselves, but she only skims over more examples of underlying racism in our lives, particularly in the media. One of the few examples that she gives of this I would have...