I thought this period was suppose to be the "post racial" period, I thought we as Americans moved away from the racist comments toward one another and thinking one group is superior over the other but I guess not. Just recently there has been stories about Caucasians making racial slurs towards African Americans, one story mostly everybody has heard, the Donald Sterling story but the another story I don't think anyone has heard yet, the Cliven Bundy story. These two stories definitely defined what it means to be prejudice, by definition prejudice is a rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people.
Starting with the Donald Sterling story, basically Donald Sterling saw a picture with his side female and Magic Johnson and he told her not to bring black people to his game especially Magic Johnson. It was also said that his side female told him that he has black people on his team Donald told her that he was aware of that but he owns them, he feeds them, and he is the reason why his players live the way they live now. As far as the Cliven Bundy story he was a Nevada rancher and he said he was driving down the road and he saw a lot of black people sitting out on the front of the porch and he made the comment that maybe Negro people were better off slaves. According to the Huffington post Bundy had an interview on CNN and he said that if people think he is racist they should blame it on Martin Luther King for not finishing his job. Also in the interview it discussed that if he says "Negro", "black boy" or "slaves" and people get offended then it shows that MLK's job isn't done.
Now tying these two stories together to the race and ethnicity chapter. Both comments that were made were both stereotypical because for one Donald wanted blacks as a whole to be excluded from the games because he say the picture with his girlfriend and Magic Johnson so I guess that he felt like whites shouldn’t be with blacks, so his anger towards that picture made him say his comment that was intended for African Americans as a whole. Cliven Bundy was being stereotypical with his comment because he only saw a family of African Americans sitting on their porch and he automatically went to that slave mentality and said that all Negroes were better off slaves. In relation to the theories of prejudice I believe that the conflict theory relates to theses situations because, whites feel that since African Americans are looked at as a minority they are superior over us and whatever racial comments that are said it is okay. By definition the conflict theory says that prejudice is used as a tool by powerful people to oppress others and Donald and Cliven are the power people and they used prejudice comments to oppress African Americans.
Both Donald Sterling and Cliven Bundy has been saying racist slurs in the past and it is quite weird that now stories about them are coming out in the media and people are shocked by what was said. Why haven’t any other stories come out about Donald and Cliven? Is it because since they are white and have that sense of superiority that whatever racial comment is made they didn't mean anything by it or the situation isn’t that serious? I think since everyone knows about it the media wants to act like it is a huge problem to them now. I thought slavery was long over and we were past the separation of whites and blacks, but by reading those two stories it makes you think otherwise.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/cliven-bundy-racist-mlk_n_5212526.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/wizards/over-four-days-the-donald-sterling-story-led-to-seismic-changes-to-los-angeles-basketball-and-the-nba/2014/04/30/ac546e94-d0a0-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html
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