So Last Century

The discussion of the Stephen Lewis column led me to write this post. Hundreds of years ago, African Americans were brought to America and bought and sold to wealthy white men. Hundreds of years later, even though America is filled with hundreds of races and ethnicities, the country is still known for its binary racism of black and white. It's a very ignorant perspective. And most of these perspectives and notions are stemmed from media. Because the media chooses to represent the problems only among the those two races, those are the only racial conflicts that mass society will likely see. It doesn't even have to be conflict. Until recently, other races such as Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Latin American, and Central American people weren't really represented in our media world, even though they exist and are just as much present as Blacks and Whites. And it all comes back to binary racism. Hopefully, with our new President-elect, Barack Obama, America will overcome this obstacle of the races.