“Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”

Not one of my random stories. This is about a article that i read on one of the World's BIGGEST PROBLEMS...

Racism




(1.) […] In almost every audience I address, there is someone who will suggest that racism is a thing of the past. There is always someone who hasn’t noticed the stereotypical images of people of color in the media, who hasn’t observed the housing discrimination in their community, who hasn’t read the newspaper articles about racial bias in lending practices[1] among well-known banks, who isn’t aware of the racial tracking[2] pattern at the local school, who hasn’t seen the reports of rising incidents of racially motivated hate crimes in America—in short, someone who hasn’t been paying attention to issues of race. But if you are paying attention, the legacy of racism is not hard to see, and we are all affected by it.


(2.) The impact of racism begins early. Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation[3] about people different from ourselves. Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families. When I ask my students, “How many of you grew up in neighborhoods where most of the people were from the same racial group as your own?” almost every hand goes up. There is still a great deal of social segregation in our communities. Consequently, most of the early information we receive about “others”—people racially, religiously, or economically different from ourselves—does not come as the result of firsthand experience. The secondhand information we do receive has often been distorted, shaped by cultural stereotypes, and left incomplete.


'Racism is the thing of the past'.... Tic..Tock..Tick..Tock DING.....WRONG!! I'm sorry but that is just a bunch of Baloney Sandwich! I mean do people even listen to the news? What do they think the tribal wars in the Middle East are for?Or even perhaps even listen to some of the crap that is said on TV that puts racist accusations to shame. The entire time I was reading this paragraph I was fuming! I mean how it amazes me that people can be so blind or just to plain stupid to acknowledge that racism is still around and very active problem. Racism is as present as white vs. black gang wars of the US and as ancient as the Hebrew slaves of the old egptian Pharohs.It has played a part in human history for thousands of years and it is most likely going to take just as long if not more to solve it.

To describe my anotation on this infiriating article is to describe a bunch of typed up words that were underlined or circled which were attached to my own personal feelings that came with them. Many were angery scribles that were supposed to look like words and drawings that did not say very kind things. These first two paragraphs are important because they bring describe the main points of racism before the auther gets into the stories behind them.