After watching the video of the interview with author Tim Wise, it almost makes me want to pick up his book and see what else he has to say. He states one thing that really stuck out to me and that was his ideas of Racism 1.0 Racism 2.0. He states that these ideas are about how we as Americans now have a new outlook on the “stereo type” of the African American race. Because of Barak Obama, we now have a new idea that you don’t have to be a White Male to become President. The stereo type that people of color are not just good basketball players, or “a problem”, they can achieve much more just like Obama. That doesn’t mean that you have to have the same background as Obama, being in a naval academy or being top of their class, but that they are able to defeat all odds and achieve more.
“Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of extremely angry, militant, known fanatic people including: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger. We want to brush aside these conclusions as attacks and believe Mr. Obama, but, how can we? Are you really to believe that we are not affected by teachers who are militant and angry? This type of teaching plays a rule in anyone whom has endured it. Who is anyone kidding that Mr. Obama won't run this country in the mindset of his teachers.”
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The new hopes for the standards are that everyone can be exceptional no matter race or ethnicity. I agree with that because the stereo types need to be changed. Stereo types can be defeated more now than ever because of the pavement that Obama created. When asking an African American child what they want to be when they grow up, they now have a response of becoming the next president.
"Among my students was the man who's going to swear Obama in as the 44th President of the United States -- John Roberts, the Chief Justice -- very, very smart; but I think that Barack Obama is on the whole at least as impressive, probably more so because of the breadth of qualities that his mind displays, and I suppose it's also a kind of emotional intelligence as well as analytical intelligence." (projo)
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