Implicit Racism

Racism occurs everyday in our society whether we realize it or not. I feel like we are all bias against eachother based on skin color. But there's nothing that we can do about it, that's just the way that we are programmed. The test that Sal took in class the other day, I've actually taken before in Political Thought. It was crazy the results that it ends up giving you. Like I didn't think I was racist, but the results I got said that I was. It was shocking. You may not think you are racist, but in the back of your mind you may have those thoughts. Also like the pic on Sal's blog with Lebron James, they portay him as King Kong almost with the expression on his face and body image. To me, that doesn't portray African Americans very well. This goes back into the whole body image topic we discussed in class and how women are portrayed badly too in the media. Racism comes out a lot in media, whether they mean to or not. I think if the media looked at their photos and captions before they were published a little more, maybe we wouldn't have such bad racial issues.