Blog 5
I have not been in the military, but I believe there would still be some racism. I’m sure it is not nearly as bad as it was back during the days of the Tuskegee Airmen.
I believe things have changed a lot since Martin Luther King gave his speeches and was assassinated. I think that African Americans still do face racism at work and when they are hired. I think that this too is better than it used to be with equal opportunity employers and the non-discriminatory hiring. It is still an issue today though, everyone is judged on how they dress down to the way they present themselves at interviews.
I believe that African American’s are still treated with disdain when they speak Black English. I remember seeing a skit on Saturday Night Live about eight years ago that talked about ebonics, so it is still something that has been talked about somewhat recently. African American’s have their own slang just like Caucasians and any other race or culture has their own slang that is usually used by that culture. For some reason it strikes a nerve with some American people when African American’s speak Black English and it shouldn’t.
Bibi was facing challenges that were completely different for the most part from Karen. They were polar opposites but yet they were both Chinese. Bibi was rebellious from her parents and was struggling with all of the choices she had, where Karen had her life planned out for her more and respected her parents. Bibi was also struggling with fighting being the stereotypical Chinese woman. She permed her hair and was loud and energetic instead of quiet and timid. She struggles with being born Chinese but culturally American.
I believe that there are some colored people that face similar challenges like Kanye West. He seems to have trouble with a lot of award shows not giving him or other artists enough awards because they are colored. He makes quite the spectacle of himself when he does talk about these issues.
I agree with your point that African-Americans are treated better in the work place since the 60’s. Programs like equal opportunity employers have definitely helped make things right. One thing I’ve thought about though is how about employers that say they are doing things fair but that doesn't mean they actually are. They can say anything they want as an excuse for why the African-American person didn’t get hired over the white person but it could be that they were prejudice against him. I don’t feel like we can trust big corporations and all of the countries human resource representatives to be 100% fair and not prejudiced. I wish that were the case but I still think a lot of unfair treatment occurs.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said when you talked about how people are judged for more than just their race in today's society, because its true. People are judged for every aspect of their appearance and attitude, and race seems to just be another factor instead of a deciding factor, which is a change from what it used to be back before the 60's. People would flat out refuse to even speak to an African American person, let alone hire them. Today, someone can choose (not to your face) not to hire you for something as trivial as your outfit.
ReplyDeleteI also liked how you said every race and group has their own type of slang, because it's true. Some of my friends in high school were of Hmong descent, and they had their own slang English.