According to oxforddictinaries.com a  racist is someone who believes that a particular race is superior to another.  Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Doing a little digging I found that the first time (that is cited) racism was uttered in this country was in 1902 by Richard Henry Pratt who was railing against the evils of racial segregation.  He said “Segregating any class or race or people apart from the rest of the people kills the progress of the segregated people or makes their growth very slow.  Association of races and classes is necessary to destroy racism and classism.” Ironic isn’t it?  For those who are not familiar with Richard Henry Pratt, he is seen as the father of the boarding schools for Native peoples to assimilate them to “white life” and is famously known for saying “Kill the Indian in him, save the man.”

What I find particularly interesting is how one-sided racism in America seems to be. Unfortunately we live in a society in which the media outlets help feed the problem.  The door called racism swings both ways, yet the lame stream media (this is my preferred name for CNN, FOX, etc…) have a tendency to only see one side of the picture.  Are the people of this country so blind that they don’t see how horribly one sided it is?  Since I could not say it any better myself, I took this little excerpt from urbandictionary.com “If you're a white man, this is what you are. It doesn't even matter if your wife is black and you have an adopted child from India, or how many black friends you have, somehow you're going to end up being a racist according to how the media portrays the white man as "racist whities".  

 Is this not hypocrisy at its best? The white man is the one that is stereotyped as being racist; it is hypocritical to assume that only white men can be racists?  So digging right in to this hypocrisy; let us examine a few individuals who I believe are fine examples of this….Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.  In recent history both of these men cried foul when a black kid was killed by a Hispanic. (Regardless of the color of skin it was a tragedy.)   It was they and the lame stream media who made the issue about race!   Where are they and where was their outrage when two black teens beat a WWII Vet to death in Seattle? What seems typically of them, they stay silent because it doesn't serve the agenda they promote.  I truly believe that these two men (and many of their followers) are themselves extremely racist!  Why, because when you listen to them talk they belittle everyone who does not see their particular agenda.   If they really cared about the betterment of the inner cities why are they not crying foul regarding all the black on black violence in Chicago?  If they really cared about the people’s equality they should be greatly concerned and using their influence to get these issues out into the public.  I was surprised to see recently flashing all over the internet that Nick Cannon dressed up in “white face” to promote his new record.  I was not surprised to find that people

 were angry about this, but I was surprised that not one main lame stream media reported it.  All the reports I could find came from online sources like the Huffington Post.  Only when looking for a response from Cannon did USA Today bother to report.  I believe that this only proves my point that the organized lame stream media only reports per an agenda.

In an organizational behavior class I learned a little bit about the Implication Associate Test (IAT).  When people took the race IAT, many found that they have a biased one way or another.  I thought, hey why not take this test and see if maybe deep down I do have a bias.  (I grew up pretty isolated on an island in Alaska…so maybe!)  So I began the test.  The way it works is that on the left and right side of the screen there are words, in this case the words were European American and African American.  First pictures of people flash across the screen and you are to place them into the appropriate category (pressing E for the left side and I for the right side).  Next two words are added to either side; in this instance it was good and bad.  Good was paired with European American and bad was paired with African American.  My first inclination was “this is just biased in the first place” obviously if African American and bad are paired together you are going to put any word that is “bad” in that category.  However the next round did a flip flop and African American was now paired with good.  My guess is that for one reason or another; a lot of people struggle to put those words together.    I will have to admit that I was a little worried at first when my results were being figured because I had read via the classroom chat that many of my fellow students had taken it and much to their horror found that deep down they did have biases.   Finally, the results………the test showed that I have an automatic preference for African Americans compared to European Americans!   

 If you are interesting in checking out this little test click on this link  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html .

Personally, I feel that we are all created equal and should be judged by our merit not our ancestral background!