Challenging Racism

I chose to pick out 3 quotes that stuck out to me while watching the second video with Tim Wise.

The first quote came from the opening speaker introducing Tim Wise. The opener stated “Today we live in a world where people are ignoring the issues at hand.” I feel people tend to ignore issues because they feel like they will just go away. If an issue is not thought of it just means it does not exist. Personally, I feel like this is the opposite. The more and longer people ignore an issue, the worse and harder it is to fix it.

The second quote came directly from Tim Wise. He states “So the fact that you have interpersonal relations with someone within that group does not say anything about how you view members of that group.” This quote is actually one of my favorites from the video. He uses the analogy of sexism with hetersexual males. He questions how a male can be sexist towards women but like women and find them attractive. People state they are not racist, for example, because they have friends of color. He says if this statement is true then the statement of "only gay men can be sexist towards women" must also be true. I really liked this analogy because I never thought of it that way before.

The third quote is also from Tim Wise and he states “Black women who have college degrees, good jobs, good incomes and good health care actually have higher rates of infant mortality for their children than white women who drop out of school after the 8^th grade, who are poor and do not have good health care."  Racial gaps are even at the top of the income spectrum. Generally, white people have better health than people of color.