Oprah Racism Clip
Racism can partially be blamed on the media and the image it has created for the minorities other then white people. The video above with Oprah is shocking to see kids picking out the black doll as the "bad doll" without much hesitation. The black person is always shown as being a drug dealer, mess-up, or just bad person in general. Our book Media Society book talks about race created stereotypes. The media is what creates these stereotypes and after we are exposed to them for a while they start altering what we believe.
We teach our kids to be racist at a young age, this is evident through children's cartoons. The clip below shows Popey attacking a Japanese ship. We expose kids to these ideas and images at a young age, this is how racism is created. The kids then grow up thinking that it is alright to discriminate against other races. The other video below shows a number of cartoons being racist specifically toward African-Americans. If we expose kids to these ideas at a young age what kind of adults do we expect them to grow into? Obviously they will consider the white race superior therefore being racist. Other races are portrait as evil and inferior.
Racism in Children's Cartoons Video
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