Saturday, March 27, 2010

Talking Point #6

When Tim Wise discussed his book "Between Barack and a Hard Place" he mentioned a lot of interesting things and some were related to Brown v Board of Education. The main point he made related to racial issues was that Obama's election is not the conclusion to equality. He argues that it is just another step in the staircase that will lead to equality. According to Wise there is still a lot of work to do.

One thing I disagree with Wise about is that another presidential race with an African American president winning will help prove discrimination is disappearing. If an African American loses a presidential race it does not necessarily relate to racism. Political elections always have a winner or loser and I believe if either one happens to be African American it does not have to coincide with discrimination or racism.

An interesting point made in this interview was the fact that Obama is a role model to colored kids. He gives kids more hope and opens their world to a less narrow world than they thought they had. It was ironic that this was this weeks reading especially because of the discussion in our class Thursday.

2 comments:

  1. I really like how you put your second paragraph. It is true that there is only one winner and you cant really "win" either way when it comes to racism. People think it's either since he's black he got the job or because he's black he didn't and that's just dumb.

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  2. I also liked and found interesting how Wise stated that Barack being elected was not a conclusion of equality.

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