Race In America

Hello blog. Race in America is a very important issue. Lately we have been talking about race issues in America as well as reading many articles from CNN. We also read passages from writers Andrew Hacker and Tom Wise. It is important that every race and ethnicity is accepted in our culture. The days of "White America" are long behind us. It may strike most people that racism still exists in our country, but it does not really strike me. People may just not be as verbal about it. I read this one article that was about wasting our energy on racism. Hacker and Wise are both white, and while they probably threw the entire race under the bus in their articles, it is true when they explained that most whites would probably prefer to have blacks seperated. It is a sad truth. People won't say this, but according to Hacker, they are thinking it. In the article I read about wasting energy on racism, the writer explains that there are much more important things to use our energy on, like helping Japan with their crisis. He said that we need to drop everything and fix the planet. It needs to be a communal effort. I agree with this, it doesn't matter black or white, it is a waste of our time and energy to be focused on racism. There are more important things that we could be doing. We could be fighting to save the children in Africa from becoming abducted soldiers instead of focusing on race. I don't want to be like Hacker throwing my race under the bus by writing in a book every prejiduce there is against blacks, and I don't want to be like Wise and explain all of the advantages and privilages that whites have, but I do want to say that the effort could be better. Although there aren't people openly being racist, there are people who think it. Thinking it and not saying it is still wrong, those thoughts shouldn't exist.