Journal - 11/27/18

The video we just watched showed what black people have had to go through. There were images of them being brought in ships all chained up. There were images of them being sold to white people (and even a child was being sold). It showed how colored people had to sit in the back of the bus. This reminds me of a video I put up on my Snapchat yesterday. It was a "commercial" (not a real one though) done by College Humor. They were advertising "diet racism". Diet racism is for those who are "kind of racist". It's for people who are the ones to say "I'm not racist but… and then go on to say something really racist. It's "diet" because they don't contribute directly to racism, but they are still racist. It then goes on to show different types of people saying racist things and then drinking the beverage. For example, the last lady that is shown is a middle age white woman sitting in her bed saying that her children would have a better time getting into college if they were a minority. Proceeding, the narrator says that she fails to understand that black people once had to be escorted by the army to schools. There was also another white man who was sitting in his office saying that black people don't have it that bad, and then says "you know the Irish were mistreated too". Or the white woman at a party, who whispers to her friend "you know I'm not racist or anything, but I would never date an Asian guy." And she says this as she is standing next to an Asian man. There is also a white couple walking down the street, and two Latinos are walking their way, and although they don't say out loud that they have fear towards them, they move to the side and decide to walk across the street to not be near them. This commercial for the "diet racism" goes on for about two minutes showing different types of racist people, and the narrator counter argues why they are wrong. At the end, they say "diet racism, because you just don’t get it".


- Susan