I am a fan of Tyra Banks show. I like how her show is fun and covers many controversial topics and things that needs to be heard. We talked about stereotyping in class. On Tyra's show she had some people together that watched some short clips about race and stereotypical and some very heated discussion on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhxsQV8JAmQ
In this section they watched a film on two different women with 3 kids each. One family black, one family white. "family and Race"
Why is is that when you see a "White women" you think that she is married and got it made. Why is it that the White woman situation is viewed more positively?
But when you see a "Black" women you think that she is going to be on "welfare" and have different fathers for each of her kids?
There is still racism today. Christian, a white male, says "well if the united states is so racist then why do we have a Black President?" And like what we have talked about in class, just because we have Black President it doesn't change anything or takes away the fact that racism still exists.
The one lady says "your not Black, you don't understand." And I think that this is true. Because no matter what subject we are on, race, ethnic, age, whatever, if your not that person and is being judged or is doing the judging and assuming, your not going to understand how it feels to be in that position.
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Isn't it true that these issues begin to show up everywhere? Even on Tyra's show! She does tackle some serious issues. And what you observed is the fact that it's easy for someone not affected by stereotypes to think they don't exist, or not even think about them at all. Those not affected frequently do not understand!
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