Eps 1: Being a brown man in white America
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Opinion | White America Wants Me to Conform.
As I walked by this young man I could only wish he had kept his social distance.
Chris Lebron is an associate professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins and the author of "The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea."
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Sonia Duncan
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I am a white woman who a few days ago alerted the police to a black man who was watching birds and repeatedly stated to the driver that he was African-American.
More than four in 10 Americans say the country still has work to do to give blacks and whites equal rights. Blacks, in particular, are less confident that they will ever be equal in this country. Americans believe that being white is an advantage in society, while about half or more think being black or Hispanic is damaging people's ability to move forward.
Opinions differ when it comes to the impact that being Asian or Indian has on a person's ability to succeed in society.
Other attributes are the ability to meet people, a strong sense of self-worth and a positive attitude to life. Asian or Indian, something that helps you to move forward in life, such as a good job, a good education or good relationships with others.
Although not all people see race as an obstacle in itself, they say that being black in this country generally impairs a person's ability to move forward, and a major reason why this is the case is due to racial barriers. Of those who say it harms their ability to progress as blacks, blacks are more likely than whites to point to high wages - paid jobs, education, and good relationships as obstacles to being ahead. Whites, on the other hand, are less likely to point to lack of access to good jobs and education as a barrier to success than blacks. According to a recent Pew Research Center poll of 1,000 adults, 55% of whites say the same, while only 30% do.
Would anyone say that white privilege is something, even if black people owned us as enslaved persons? We may be privileged in some areas and marginalised in others, but we must accept that we can all be marginalised in one area or another. It is the lot of poor white people because we still own them and we still control them.
Moreover, about two-thirds say that race relations in the US have become more frequent since Trump took office, and that people who express racist views like Trump's have become "more frequent" since he took office. More than half of white Americans and more than three-quarters of black people say race relations in the US are bad, but few see them improving. There are many people of color in this city, many of them young and white, from all walks of life.
More than eight in ten black adults say the legacy of slavery is affecting the position of blacks in America today, including 59% who say it affects them deeply. More than two-thirds of white Americans say that the country is unlikely to achieve racial equality at some point, and more than three-quarters of blacks , whites and Hispanics . About three in ten white adults said that "the country has not gone far enough" in granting equal rights to blacks and whites. About one-third of whites and about half of African-Americans say that "we have not gone far enough" to grant blacks the same rights as whites, but only about one in five black Americans and less than half of the white population say that the nation has gone "far enough" to give blacks the same rights as whites.
A similar proportion of blacks in all age groups say the country has not gone far enough in giving blacks the same rights as whites. Hispanics are split between whites and blacks, with 48% saying that "the country has not gone far enough" to grant blacks the same rights as whites, and about three-quarters of Hispanics and Hispanics over 65 are more likely than whites to believe that the nation has "not gone far enough" on the issue. About a third of black adults and more than half of African Americans .
Black people intuitively know that America's racial history is complex, but national ignorance has led white people to take umbrage at being called racist, to call themselves "racist," and, worse, to regard extrajudicial executions of black people as the norm. It does not matter if there is a widespread belief in the superiority of one race over another, as in white America.