After watching the video from Hyphen-Nation about Bakari really made me realize even more ways that African Americans are treated. Bakari says that he is in the car with a white female driving, and they get pulled over and the police go straight to his window and did not even ask the driver for anything. They asked for his ID to see if he had any warrants or if there is anything to make him look bad. He stated that people approach him in unfair ways because of his skin color and coming back from seeing his family in Iran.
The police were being very stereotypical and judged him off of his looks and where he has family from, even though he was born in the United States and is an American citizen. They were asking him questions that made him feel uncomfortable and he was confused why they were asking these things because of his race. The police officer was being unfair. The police officer was an assimilationist. The police officer should not have just walked up to his window and started talking to him just because he was in a car and had no proof of anything he's ever done wrong. And this shows racial inequalities and the fact that the police officer was found incorrect and it was honestly embarrassing for the police because he was just very stereotypical. If the police officer was an assimilationist, that does not mean that they are a bad person. I think it means that they made poor decisions and unfair judgements Which is why this video stuck with me. I hate to see how the world is unfair and why people have to say unneeded things to people with such negative feelings. This could have been a microaggression to Bakari, and made him feel like he wasn't good enough to be in the United States even though he is a wealthy good working american citizen. This unit was meaningful to me because it showed me how people around the world treat people of color differently than they would from a white person. Which is very hard to look at and realized that this is what our world has turned into. It has also shown me that there are ways a number of people can change, But. There are also some people who don't believe in change, and people who will stay the same because their beliefs are different than others and that because they have a different colored skin that they are better than others which is not true and if people are going to believe that then this world is going to get more messed up. In my opinion I believe that this should be offered next year so kids who haven't got any understanding of racism and how other people around the world of color are being treated, and how hurtful this can mean to people of color who get treated with disrespect like they are different from us just because the color of their skin which does not identify a person. People need to learn and be educated about this.
0 Comments
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
June 2021
|