Reflection:
What Tim Wise mentioned in the Youtube video was that racial inequality is not over. Just because Barack Obama became president, it does not mean everyone can now sing kumbaya. It's like that band-aid on a broken leg. Obama becoming president could actually form a different kind of racism. For example, Obama sort of sets an example for black people and because of that, accepted black people would only be the ones who meet that standard or level of knowledge. There would be that racism between those who excel and those who don't. It takes time if we want to lessen the racism and that is what the website shows us. The history on how we got segregation to be illegal proves that it requires time in our society. Bob Herbert writes that there is still racial inequality in his article "Separate and Unequal". Education reforms try to separate schools for just the rich and for the poor and so expectations are lower for poor schools than rich schools. Brown vs. Board of Education, Tim Wise and Bob Herbert all have a connection and that is inequality never disappears without a fight.
I said a similar thing in my blog relating to how Obama may be setting a standard of how excellent a person of color has to be in order to succeed. There was a quote that was something along the lines of: racism wont truly be over until black people can be as mediocre as white people and still succeed.
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