Racial Domination, Racial Progress Paper

The fallacy I choose is, “individualistic fallacy.” I know I am in this category because I was taught this by my peers in an after school program when I first came to America. They described the meaning of prejudice to me, so I know that it is similar to racism problems in this country. This issue appeals to my family and I. We are in the double conscious that you think too much in some situation when you are with the dissimilar group. For example, you over-react the extreme way when the black people approach you strangely. My parents think that African Americans are uneducated, poor, and violent. My parents fear that they will lead me down the wrong path if I befriend them. Furthermore, my mother has an image that black people are aggressive and love to fight with others if they think that person is in their way. They always mention that black people are the poorest in the world because they tell me that all beggars are black people. Somewhat, I am sharing the same view as my parents. They lecture me not to hang out with the black people so much. My parents only want me to befriend Asians, especially the smart ones, and learn from them. They do not like me to learn from white and black people. Once I had a friend name Cindy, I met her in my homeroom of middle school. Although I spent a great amount of time with her, I did not enjoy the time we spent together as much as I did with my Asian friends My family and I unintentional bigoted other ethnicities by their appearance. There was a victim that found guilty of getting in trouble because his face looks weird. Another story that my teacher sent a link to us about the officer are critic on the poor teenager boy with informative clothes, and do not look very bright. He was quickly arrested him and presuppose he was in a crime.

               During my school years, I realize that there are some segregation and bias. People raised in a diverse environment are not always getting together. They are more concentrating their own race and skin. They know that their own population sees eye to eye to what they are shouting like keeping saying the “N and fool” word. The white American think of immigrants are not comfortable and welcome in the previous centuries. The reason is they look at them like they are alien, and the ones who born in U.S abhor to the ones who want to come here. They verbalize the fundable judgment word out to their buddies. As a result, I am having a gap between the citizens who born here. 

The white American political doctrine of color-blindness is an ineffective strategy. It shows how the white people were not acknowledging much of how much black people are suffering. “Color-blindness would be the ideal response to a society unaffected by a racial domination.”(K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutman, Color Conscious the Political Morality of Race (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) Pg 41).However, nowadays there are many racial problems that exist and are affected by color-blindness of minorities. Human tends to ignore the color people. Treating people coldly may be bad. But treating them harshly, and more importantly unfairly, is much worse. Some researchers are ascertaining that white people are not drug addict as much as black people. Their social class status are way opposite to each other like the pure, whiten families are living in the rich fancy house with gate, and the other side of black people are living in broken down houses or apartments. White seem not too interested in getting along with black. Colorblind racism is when you tell other you are not racist, but you are already one of them in that point. Indeed, there is an abstract to explain such a racial matter. People just have standards when it comes to social structure. For example, my standard is I do not do drug, have unsafe sex, and party every night. I asked one of my white male friend who he shares the same view as me. Most people are bias towards others and create large commotions. Discrimination exist in economic, politic, friendship, and cultural. Discrimination would always lead to misunderstanding or offend other. African American, White American, Asian, and Hispanic are both present the wrong idea to the individual and act in various ways to someone. Moreover, colors people think white are in the superior high class status, and the color people are aware and dislike how the white people interact with them. Also “If white people benefit from their skin privilege, people of color are disadvantage by it,” (41). I absolutely agree to this. It is unfair to the color people. They will not have as much privilege as white people. We immediately cannot judge and put up the status that white people get better things than other color-people. However, the reality seems to be that way. We can change to respect other racial groups, but it is not perfect in our society because human are still containing some nasty attitudes to others. Now there are some stories listed of the inequality of ethnic cluster. The girl in my class said that her friend went to a salon to get her hair done. When she saw the black and white hair stylists, she did not hesitate to choose the white lady. Another situation was about the boy named Alex, he is a white man who detests the African American, Ryan. They were talking and eating with their friend. Alex accidentally said the “N” word out for fun in his group, and Ryan got upset and told him that he had no right to use that word. Ryan raised his voice and tells him to shut up, but Alex kept on using the word with his best friend. Ryan knew and started the fight with him. Then they both got into a fight. Alex was complained that it was not fair of the result, and Ryan was portrait as an antagonist. Alex thought he used the casual joke and not offended Ryan. It proves how black people do not have the advantage, fairness. People describe black as low education, dirty in our society. We decide to believe that they are inferior to white people. In the second story, it seems like Alex is conscious and was color-blind to the black people. He thinks he is the best and does not want to give a good attitude toward Ryan. People might not do anything to do with the problem, and some people do not go deep into other culture to learn about their struggle and ideas. These are emphasizing the naturalization and cultural racism. Some people think that it is alright to leave thing as it is and believe there is no racism going on. Some school and media do not spread out this racist conflict and deem that it is fine to treat it like that. Communities are prejudicing how Asian puts their effort in their education first. Hispanic women are putting in favoritism that they are low education and easy find as a single-mother as African American women. In my opinion, not all cultural worlds are going into that category. Therefore, they have been illustrated as selfish and prideful inhabitants.

The term “advance marginality” is ghetto. “There are poor white neighborhoods, Hispanic barrios, and Chinatown aplenty. But a ghetto is not defined exclusively by its poverty, nor as we have already seen, are all kinds of poverty the same,” (230). However, there are some people often using this word as a useful phrase, and sarcastic joke. In my high school year, there are a few black people who describe their own neighborhood as a ghetto because they naturally think they are living in poor condition. My current friend claimed his house is like a ghetto because he thinks that it is old, dirty, and weird shape. They response that their house might live in a bad circumstance as an apartment or house scribbled with the homeboy writing, they have the gangsters walk around. Their family cannot support them, and have a crazy, violent neighbor-hood. Hence, they place it as a metaphor to get others attention. It is nonsense just to provide that as a regular conversation, but people love to apply it for fun. The house is dirty It is not one hundred percent accurate of how others live in that poverty is consider ghetto, but most people are assuming and frame that is the way it is. It is connect to the prejudice side like I preserve over black people because they breathe in the ghetto area. They occasionally dress in baggy pants and do not smell good. I am racist in some way of how the other cultures exist. I do not like the Downtown and East Los Angeles areas where black and Hispanic people live in. It is in worse areas, dirty ground, and a lot of homeless people. Next, In the East Los Angeles, they have so many graffiti writing in the wall by the low life teenagers and teenagers and the houses were all mashed up. I just cannot help but rant how they survive in there. As I examine, the certainty of advanced marginality in the ghettos of the United States is most applicable in its youth. It is the youth who will be the most frustrated at the lack of a future. With a lack of a steady income, an absence of security, a disinterest in imagination, it is easy to understand why anyone would join a criminal organization in hopes of belonging. Anomie in this situation will likely be a compulsive force. This kind of organization fulfills economic security, a sense of personal security, a collective goal, and most importantly, a sense of belonging. This is why organizations that offer sports as an after school program are so successful in changing lives. Such organizations understand that it is children that are the most important target group, because they are the most affected by advanced marginalization. Most importantly, the youth are the force behind change. The collective imagination and memory are established in everyone’s experience. You create a frame that the other might attack you that we can witness it is in race riot . It is ridiculous how racists review people of color in a violent way. They do not step in each other’s shoes and care for them. These people have been alienated so much, that they become blinded by a mob mentality. From a humanistic point of view, advanced marginalization has been contracted by both rich and poor. Negative ideas have penetrated so deep and for so long, that both sides believe the stereotypes they have been told to believe. It is an endless cycle that does not benefit anyone. It is as if these people are degenerating in their minds. When humans first walked on Earth, they were hunters and gatherers. They believed anyone who was not in their tribe to be aliens. The same thing has happened with religion, with state societies, and with nationalities. But now things have degenerated to race, which is nothing more than color. Imagination shrinks to the persons living next to you, who you talk with every day, who become like family. Memories are replaced with mindless routine.

In conclusion, I have committed the individualistic fallacy for most of my life. I have felt it too, from other groups. I see it in my own neighborhood, with my peers, with my parents, even with strangers. This class has helped me see past what my society has told me to just believe.