White Swim In Racial Preference: Article Analysis

Whites Swim in Racial Preference
Brandi Sims
SOCI 111-07H
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
October 16, 2014

ABSTRACT

Yes, whites have had more privileges than people of color. People of color had to work 10 times harder to even get close to having what the whites already had. Whites called themselves hard workers, but they were not the ones forced to pick cotton and to build levies for free; or harder than the Latino immigrants who spend 10 hours a day in fields picking strawberries or tomatoes; or harder than the women of color who cleaned hotel rooms or changed bedpans in hospitals, or the men of color who collected their garbage. Privilege to the whites were like water to fish: it is invisible to them because they
What I mean by censorship is that authority figures control what citizens know by only bringing the minimum information to the light. African Americans, Latinos and American Indians are left in the dark. This is evident when President Bush disapproved of Michigan’s policy of awarding points to undergraduate applicants who are only members of underrepresented minorities, such as African Americans, Latinos and American Indians. President Bush failed to mention, that the greater numbers of points are awarded for other things that amount to preferences for whites to the exclusion of people of color (Wise, 2003).
The labeling theory is the concern with how self-identity and behavior of individuals may be influenced. It suggests that people mat obtain labels from how others view their behavior. To say people of color are not hard workers and they just want a hand out would be a stereotype. Whites and people of color are and can be hard workers. But just because some are lazy it does not necessarily mean that they are all lazy. Whites and people of color can be lazy. People of color tend to work harder to get ahead because they are at a disadvantage over the
With that being said, it is only right to let every person be free and equal with the dignity and rights with regard to their race and religion.
A race is defined as a human population that is considered to be different in some way from others based on imagined or real physical differences. There has been historical racism in the United States as a result of inequalities caused by past racism that is affecting the present generation. As talked about in the article people of color will rarely attend the “best” schools, and on average, schools serving mostly black and Latino students offer only a third as many AP and honors courses as schools serving mostly whites. So, even truly talented students of color will be unable to access those extra points simply because of where they live, their economic status and ultimately their race, which is intertwined with both. (Wise,