The Obama Craze and the R word.

I recently went to a key note speaker about the ideals of racism and how it has been affected in our society today. The gentleman was white male that had a lot to say about how he felt America was doing with Obama and racism.

This man had a couple key note things about racism and America:
1- The Prominent Culture group will always face integration denial.

He mentioned that Obama could never really talk about the real problems in this country. Obama would have been pegged as a radical of racial ideals. After all, he couldn't of won if he was stamped as such. Though swirlling around him was always the off colored joked or his lack of experience or just the mere depiction of a young Afro-American claiming to be 'white washed.'

He also discussed that in times like this, the prominent group will always believe that problems are done and resolved, though ignoring the protests of non-prominent groups. They are never confronted with the issues of the minorities.

He then defined what racism really is: the dominant group will/can fit in any place in society. The rest of the groups of people are flawed and carry the rest of characteristics that envelope what the dominant group depict them as. If one member of the minority groups fails to fit in their place, they all are expected to make the same mistake. One member represents the expectations of their group.

2- Racism has evolved from Stereotypes into Archetypes.
Stereotypes are the negative views of a group of people. In our day, it evolved into Archetypes. Archetypes are models or expectations of a certain culture. If a member of that culture isn't exactly like that model, they are viewed as flawed. This is also referred as 'transcend race'. This statement basically says that when people step out of the model, they can be deemed as not black, latin, native or asian; or seen as not like the others.The Anglo-Caucasians do not have such a type.

What I thought about his presentation, forgive me I don't remember his name, was he had some good points. We as a society have much more to go in order find equality among all peoples. Perhaps the internet community will be able to bridge that gap or fill it to a point where we may cross on our own. With the on-line community, there isn't color of skin, accent of the voice or facial expressions, just words that paint a picture for a brighter future. Wow, the power of PR work.