Blog Post 4 due 2/6

A common racial ideology today I think is the cultural racism surrounding Black families. Some examples are that black families struggle because they live in poverty, don't have an education or good education, or are incarcerated (Racial Ideologies Lecture Slide 13). It is very easy to stereotype these families into this category that they are not doing enough or that they put themselves in these bad situations. I think that White people believe in this ideology because of history. It has always been that whites have more than blacks, are better, can afford more opportunities and materials for their families. Parental opinions also have a big impact on the reasons people may believe this cultural racism ideology. For example, my grandparents grew up with the fact that whites are better than blacks. Nowadays they do not realize that some of the comments they make could be offensive to other people. The fact that white people believe that there is superiority is an example of biological racism (Racial Ideologies Lecture Slide 7). This all perpetuates racism because people do not consider other factors as to why black fathers are not good. It could be they got caught stealing because they couldn't get a real job to provide for their family. There are so many reasons, both extreme and plain jane, as to why a father isn't present in the child's life. Sometimes it's as simple as the father just left. People tend to not care to look into the small factors that make the big picture. A lot of racial issues could be solved with people being open-minded, willing to listen to all sides of the story, and just being kind. The fact is that it doesn't matter what race the father is. Anyone could turn out to be a crappy father. 


Classroom Vocabulary:

(Racial Ideologies Lecture, 2022, Slide 2,4,7,12, 14)


Ideology: set of principles and ideas that benefits the dominant group

Racial ideology: set of principles and ideas that divides people into different racial groups and serves the interest of one group

Biological racism: idea that whites are genetically superior to nonwhites

Cultural racism: way of thinking that attributes disadvantaged racial groups' lack of prosperity to their behavior and culture

Colorblind racism: idea that we should all ignore skin color


 Reference List



Atkin, N.D. (2021). HDFS 280: Defining Family & Family Diversity [Lecture notes 8]. Retrieved 

        from http://mycourses.purdue.edu


Sensoy, O. & DiAngelo, R. (2017). Is everyone really equal? An introduction to key concepts in 

        social justice education (2nd ed.). Teachers College Press.


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