how to be anti-racist

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December 3 , 2008

Help Thy Neighbor

Everyone is born into this world free from prejudice . When people enter their domains during their formative years , then opinions form about people , places and subjects

Affluent people to possess college degrees , live in nice homes , drive fancy cars and have amenities such as housekeeping services . People with little education tend to hold menial jobs , if any , drive older cars , may or may not have graduated from high school and struggle to get buy

from paycheck to paycheck . Some of this has to do with work ethic , luck and individual drive . In some cases , there are outside forces that work toward destroying any chance for a better life

Racism is the dirty little secret nobody wants to discuss . For centuries , minorities - particularly African Americans - have faced stiff challenges to obtain the same opportunities as white Americans From education to jobs to even healthcare , African-Americans are behind whites in those and other important lifestyle categories

Joseph Feagin asserts that this type of institutional racism continues today . He said many whites stereotype other groups because they do not see them in their own environment . His findings conclude that because white people do not see many black people in positions of power that there are problems with them as a group (Feagin ,1

Whites see a few successful middle class or upper income African Americans in the mass media and may generalize from these examples to African Americans as...