In this week’s reading, ‘Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian American and Hawaii’. He discussed the idea of post-racial America is an illusion created by people who blindly believe the ideal racial equality exists. In reality, racism still exists in people’s everyday life. If you comparing how it used to be, it does become less extreme and also obvious. People used to say it out loud and not caring how other people think since it was widely accepted by society back in the days. Nowadays, racism has less power over the inferiority and people started to realized how important is it to united as one as opposed to dividing each other. Obama’s election victory is a reflection of people who were desperately trying to create a post-racial America. His presidency experienced multiple constraints in addressing racial tensions on issues such as mass incarceration, police brutality, and also a rise in white supremacy. Even with Obama’s presidential election victory. Americans’ political beliefs also have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they had been before Obama’s presidency.
Q: How do we battle or deal with racism towards Asian American in our everyday life?
Work Cited:
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.
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