Why Are All The Black Kids Analysis

In Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, as she explores the development of racial identity, Dr. Beverly Tatum says, “[Eggs] are different on the outside, but the same on the inside. People are the same way. They look different on the outside, but they are the same on the inside” (Tatum 35). Individuals do not get to choose their race, but it is only external—inside, human is human. A controversy exists over weather being pro-black and lifting up one’s race is a sincere form of self-love or a form of reverse racism from bigots. Those who believe that being pro-black is a honest way of loving oneself think that “loving blackness and asserting black power can be frightening for a lot of white [people] who just don’t understand,
All in all, Daniel Greenfield exclaims that, “black racism hides behind alleged victimhood. Every act of bigotry, from name calling to race riots to murder, is justified by the claim that every single white person is part of a conscious or unconscious conspiracy to discriminate against them” (Greenfield 2). He infers that black people feel that since white ancestors placed them into slavery that white people should offer handouts to people of color and that if blacks want to succeed in life they should work just as hard as whites. Consequently, Greenfield agrees that, “no group that talks about ‘white supremacy,’ ‘white privilege,’ or ‘white spaces’ is a civil rights movement, … is a racism movement” (Greenfield 4). People of color justify their actions of protesting based on white on black crimes. However, when there are black on black crimes, it is more mourning than movement. As a result, Greenfield concludes that, “racial insecurity makes it easy for black people to believe the worst about white people and to react collectively” (Greenfield 3). Many black people feel inferior and subject to white people. Many caucasians believe every person has the same resources, yet blacks refuse to take advantage of them. Therefore individuals should not allow people of color to exhibit reverse racism and
There is nothing wrong with encouragement when people are stereotyping the race/ethnicity one comes from. It is okay to be “Black and Proud” (Case 4). After all, “[The black community] has to convince [themselves] every single day that [they] are worth something and that [they] are valuable, because [they] are surrounded by systems and a society that constantly devalues and dehumanize [them]” (Davis 5). People of color should be able to love their race especially when they are trapped in a society that cares less about them, and more about keeping their privileges, as whites do. In addition, Davis articulates that, “not only are [people of color] still recovering from hundreds of years of brutalization against [their] ancestors, but [they] are still facing daily racialized trauma because of the ways those violent systems have continued to lock [blacks] out of the resources [they] need” (Davis 5). Still to this day, due to stereotypes, black people’s race and character continuously gets attacked even after all of their past sufferings. Black people can make an effort to advance, but still need encouragement from one another in the black community to get by. Though it is important to be pro-black in an Anti-black world, it has nothing to do with hating white