Does reverse racism really exist? In class, we briefly spoke about how it doesn't for the following reason: One cannot be racist if he/she is not in a position of power. However, this doesn't mean he/she cannot spit racial slurs or something of the like. But his/her submission of derogatory remarks are nearly harmless to the race of the higher power.
This article really covers the ins & outs of the myth of reverse racism. While it restates everything that Mattessich broadly stated in class a couple days ago, it also goes into more depth and detail with each component of the theory of reverse racism.
http://www.raceandhistory.com/selfnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1024893033,80611,.shtml
I chose this as a topic to blog about because I agree that reverse racism doesn't truly exist. I just recently experienced an encounter with a black woman wherein I felt I was being treated a certain way merely because of the color of my skin. I was in the mall with a couple of my girl friends. The black woman was initially talking to a group of black teenage girls, and she seemed to have a great energy and friendliness about her. But when she saw my white friends and me, she became cold and kept yelling at us for the littlest things: she was saying that we were talking too loudly in the store and that we couldn't sit in some places in the store. I don't believe that she would have had a problem with our behavior had we been the group of black teenagers whom she was especially nice to just a few minutes prior. However, it is true that I was totally unaffected by the rudeness that the black woman executed - I think because I knew that I had every right to be in that store, speaking freely, at the volume of my choice, and to whom and where I wanted. I was entirely secure in my skin. This personal experience coheres to the analysis of reverse racism that I have now heard spoken and written about.
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hey shayna. i agree fully with your thoughts about reverse racism. i also think that the way minority races act towards white americans is because of our past. it also could be a personal issue that has nothing to do with racism - it could be a lack of confidence.
whatever it is, i feel like discrimination will exist as hard as everyone tries to get rid of it.
<3 angel.
I agree with you ideas on reverse racism too. I think the reasons for reverse racism are the same as why people are racist in the first place, because they are raised that way. as long as there is racism with the race in power controlling a minority, you will always have the reverse racism accompanying that because it is only natural for a repressed group to express hostility against the majority.
Hey shay i agree with your ideas too. I feel that people discriminate all the time no matter what color their skin is. However, the impact the discrimination has on people is the difference between a person of power being racist and a minority being racist. As you said when the black women discriminate against you it didn't affect you because you are in power. I hope racism fades sooner or later whether it is from a minority of a place of power.
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