Racial Identity and Ideology

Racial Identity and Ideology As time continues, buzz words, code words, euphemisms and myths become deeper and more embedded in the subconscious ideology in America right through today. This essay is written after reading a portion of "Race, Class, And Gender In The United States, by Paula S. Rothenberg", where she reveals how the general public, and pretty much the entire U.S.A., views the lower class as the undeservable and unwilling. Here is a good concept of what has been happening since the 1960’s “ like Myrdal’s; and some - this author included – have felt that the term has taken on so many connotations of undeservingness and blameworthiness that it has become hopelessly polluted in meaning, ideological overtone and implications, and should be dropped – with the issues involved studied via other concepts”. (p 103) It is very unfortunate that codewords and ideology of this nature carry such large amounts of judgmental baggage and become tolerant within the public eye, by the way terminology has been conjured up, or derived from the mere fact that greed, and or, fear itself that the poor unfortunate underclass, if given the tools, may somehow gain social hierarchy and take everything for themselves! I have always thought that the people that didn't have jobs must have had something or someone else to support them. I was raised with strong work ethics and I knew that if I wanted my own things in my life, I would have to work and earn the money to pay for them. My personal racial ideology, or how I perceive other races, is very simple. Race does not constitute poverty, nor does it distinguish who is better at the game of life. In my own words, people are people, who can argue that? There are good and bad people, some selfish, some not, many stereotype, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. This book angers me and raises so many questions about how so many people preserve the right to point fingers and blame and accuse the other out of