I thought racism had ended too

"In the news media and in popular culture, the notion persists that millennials — born after the overt racial debates and divisions that shaped their parents’ lives — are growing up in a colorblind society in which interracial friendships and marriages are commonplace and racism is largely a relic. But interviews with dozens of students, professors and administrators at the University of Michigan and elsewhere indicate that the reality is far more complicated, and that racial tensions are playing out in new ways among young adults."

                                                                                Colorblind Notion Article
College has the potential to be a very scary place. It is the first time that we start on our own and the first time that we learn how to deal with things first-hand. At University of Michigan the Black Student Union organized a protest on MLK day in response to racist events and black students feeling isolated. 

Race will always separate society because race is something that we created. We are all humans, but humans need structure and hierarchy so we chose to label the different races out of a need for superiority.

This article mentions a party that a University of Michigan fraternity hosted calling all "“rappers, twerkers, gangsters” to come “back to da hood again”. According to the article, most of the fraternity brothers were white or Asian. This is not appropriate because they are identifying black people as those three things. In college it is widely known thought most black people can dance better than white people and that most black people do not come from middle-upper class suburban homes. So this derogatory language made the black population upset.

Instead of identifying a race or gender by what people think, it would be much healthier to identify a race by their personality and actions, not by their stereotypes. Everything is becoming so politically correct these days that race is even more sensitive than it once was. 

As we discussed in class, each race has a stereotype and I think the stereotype we do not always recognize is that white people are always painted with a negative persona. For example one student at UM said, "for example, if a white student did not hold a door open for a black student who was about to walk through it. Maybe the student was just in a rush, Ms. Smith, 19, said. But 'in my mind, I could be thinking, ‘Oh, it’s because I’m black.’ '" If all people really think this way, racial tension and misrepresentation is going to be difficult, if not impossible to control in mass media or in small chain emails to fraternity brothers.