Thursday, October 22, 2015
BlogPost#2
Race, Crime and Punishment in our society has caused many to approach this system in many different ways. Why... For this week in class, we had the article, Surveillance of "suspicious blacks" which was in the neighborhood of rich whites who lived near some blacks. This article can be a tool to help people understand the people of Georgetown, especially the interactions that whites have towards blacks day in and day out. In this article, there are severe differences between blacks and whites, but blacks(colored people) are always going to be feared in whites eyes because the differentiation of norms, having to be interculturally sound when it comes to race. Hearing about these Plush neighborhoods, makes me jealous because I grew up in a home that is overwhelmed with poverty, and I believe all shall be equal, but we are not. Using this 'private messaging application that hundreds of residents, majority white, use to deem the suspicious, (mostly blacks), should not be something, Rich White People should be using to solve their problems by racial profiling, having this sort of enthnocentral perspective towards an observation of black men, when in real life if a white man does the same observation of the black man, it would be treated Differently. I feel that as I go on in this class, I believe that the future has So Much More adversity that I will have to face, by seeing what is happening to many black and colored people. By having the money, you can use that to gain all the riches in the world but cannot earn respect and the respect of being interculturally a citizen in US. By the way that the AA male dressed, was improper for a black male so he was considered extremely suspicious and had shown mischievous acts.
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I totally agree that the racial profiling is absurd. Members of the community with excessive amounts of money, feel threatened by anyone or anything that is out of the norm. I happen to live in a neighborhood that is affected by similar profiling and it is a damn shame. It is important that we learn to coexist and accept differences between people. Differences shouldn't make us unable to coexist within the same environment with fear.
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