Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Post # 5 Revision of one paragraph of essay #1

The song “Only a Pawn in Their Game” by Bob Dylan is about how whites are part of a game, in this case a chess game, controlled by someone who is more powerful than them. In the game of chess, the pawn are in front protecting the king and the queen and from this point of view Dylan makes his point, that white people follow what they were taught to do throughout their lives. As the white people are being led by the higher white people, that is the government, and that in a way the higher people are hiding behind them. So white people of the lower status do the dirty work for the government without them really knowing. The question is what they are hiding from and it’s because of black people who are trying to get the rights that they deserve like anyone else but the higher white people don’t want to let that happen.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Post 3

Larry Neal argues that Western culture is different from the black culture and why should the Western culture be adopted by black people if they have their own. As in the Western culture art and aesthetics are separate while in a black community its one because it supports one another in describing something. Having these two words joined together it's like having a group that is fighting for something and make their argument stronger when having people on their side, not giving up. When there is a march some of the groups sing to make there point clear and powerful. Repeating something over and over to make others see what they are fighting for.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Post #4 Part 2

As I understood individual racism is when a person that does something against the other person who is different race because they hold that hatred against them. While institutionalized racism is when more powerful people keep people, that they hold the hatred against, in the same bad conditions. It's important because it depends on how much of the impact it would have on the group as institutionalized racism would have more impact on them rather than individual racism. But they are somehow interconnected together as the outside force gives us information and the individuals interpret it in their own way. So I think institutionalized racism is a bigger problem today as they still tell people the information that they want us to hear and maybe get rid of other information. For instance, with the news channels I read somewhere that some news stations don't report the information that people need to hear and maybe another channel like BBC news tells people more of what's going on in the US and in the world.