After
finished reading "Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a
post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and
Hawai'i" written by Jonathan Y. Okamura, my memory takes back to 2008. As
Obama won the election, many journalists commented on what his win meant for
minority groups. That’s true. His position represented the multi-culturalism,
color blindness, neo-conservatism and etc. As for me, Obama, as a president, is
a black person, one of his goals must be appealed to public that equalized
rights for every race. It's is a significant claim "post-racial". In
fact, in the late 1900s, there were the movements of anti-affirmative action,
but the neo-conservatism was denied the significance of race in the United
States in order to maintain the racial status quo of white dominance. Obama
as a “post-racial” candidate in this movement to contributes much time and efforts
and tried to reverse the reality. Meanwhile, he made voice of Asian American “I
am one of you.” He gave lots of hopes for minority groups whose situations in
the United States were really tough to live on. Even though he used this campaign to get his supporters, he really did for minority groups.
The racial discrimination is
a social hierarchy from top to bottom on society. And It’s hard to change in
the US. In every work field, the dominance is the white people. Yesterday, I talked
with my friend who is Asian American and a sale manager in one luxury brand
store. She is the top sales performance but has the lowest salary. And there
are so many matters about racial discrimination. She said “I just want to be myself
and try my best. It’s the easiest way to fight for my rights!"Question: Does Trump can act as "post racial" candidate to lead for equal rights?
Image retrieved from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28412728-racial-realities-and-post-racial-dreams
Okamura, J. Y. (2011). Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: Perspectives from Asian America and Hawai‘i. Patterns of Prejudice, 45(1-2), 133-153. doi:10.1080/0031322x.2011.563159
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