2 In Brazil, blacks only make up 2.2% of the student population in universities. If they try to get a degree of a higher caliber, they will not be taken seriously because of where they come from and how they are perceived. Without any opportunity to better themselves and try to move up in society, they will stay in the same shape of poverty that they always have been in (“Race and Racism in Latin America:Brazil”). 3 In the video, “A White Audience is Left Speechless by a Brilliant Question About Race” the speaker asks the audience (all white people) if they would like to be treated the way that blacks are in society. If they did then they would stand up, but no one did. She asked if maybe the audience didn’t understand the question, so she asked it again but still no one stood up. This shows that everyone knew how people of color were being treated and knew that they didn’t want it to happen to them, but still they don’t do anything to help out with the problem(“A White Audience is Left Speechless Racism in America”). It can’t happen in a day, but with action by all there can be steps taken towards putting an end to
2 In Brazil, blacks only make up 2.2% of the student population in universities. If they try to get a degree of a higher caliber, they will not be taken seriously because of where they come from and how they are perceived. Without any opportunity to better themselves and try to move up in society, they will stay in the same shape of poverty that they always have been in (“Race and Racism in Latin America:Brazil”). 3 In the video, “A White Audience is Left Speechless by a Brilliant Question About Race” the speaker asks the audience (all white people) if they would like to be treated the way that blacks are in society. If they did then they would stand up, but no one did. She asked if maybe the audience didn’t understand the question, so she asked it again but still no one stood up. This shows that everyone knew how people of color were being treated and knew that they didn’t want it to happen to them, but still they don’t do anything to help out with the problem(“A White Audience is Left Speechless Racism in America”). It can’t happen in a day, but with action by all there can be steps taken towards putting an end to