White Like Me Documentary

Today in my FYS class we watched White Like Me. White Like Me is a documentary based on the work of anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise. It talks about race and racism in the US through the perspective of a white man about white privilege.

In his assessment of the American ideology he says that we've entered a post-racial society. In the documentary White Like Me, Tim Wise gives us a look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to encourage racial inequality and race-driven political disagreements today.

The main point of the film was to show how white privilege continues to shape individual attitudes, politics, and government policy in ways many white people never stop to think about. To understand these concepts you first need to know what White Privilege means. White Privilege is a term for societal privileges that benefit people who society identify as white in some countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.

Another concept that the film mentions is racial biases. Racial biases are a form of implicit bias, which refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect an individual's understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.

Even in a society as modern as we think our is, racism still exists even despite milestones such as Barack Obama being elected as the first African American POTUS.

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