Today in class, we watched Tim Wise's video titled "White Like Me" and I felt that it made some very interesting points. My favorite point that Wise made was when he spoke about how when Barack Obama was elected, people around the nation made claims that racism was now behind America because of this one event. This was clearly a very stupid thing to assert considering people still made atrocious comments about our president's background. Another topic that Mr. Wise made was how as white person, you never really think about what exactly that means. This video has made me reflect on what exactly it means to me. Looking at it, I really don't think being white should mean anything in particular to a person just as being black shouldn't mean anything in particular to someone. This however, has clearly not been the case for our country as was illustrated when the video played a clip from "Black Like Me." It is truly appalling to see how a man, who was white, was judged so harshly because he portrayed himself as being black. people were flat out cruel to him, not because of who he was as a person, but because of his portrayed skin color. I certainly hope that in our near future this kind of racism really will be gone forever.
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