A dose of reverse racism

The author Stanley Fish wrote, in America “whites once set themselves apart from blacks and claimed privileges for themselves while denying them to others.” He also writes, “Now, on the basis of race, blacks are claiming special status and reserving for themselves privileges they deny to others. Isn’t one as bad as the other? The answer is no” So why do the words “Reverse Racism” ring so loudly on the ear of young Americans?
What is reverse racism? It could be just what it sounds like; the reverse of racism, which would be racial harmony. But I highly doubt that this concept was to be reduced to such a simple idea.
Isn’t it seems to mean that Anglo-Americans feel discriminated against by those who aren’t Anglo-Americans.
That must feel really bad considering that they have work so hard to establish themselves as “better” than others.
However whites are the majority group in a country, and have the power of wealth that leads to education, and health services; not to mention the power of the ballet that the majority holds.
So how insignificant are African-American doses of reverse racism?
Here is an interesting scenario, recently I had a conversation with a young man who happen to be white. We spoke in great detail of reverse racism and the way it has changed from the blatant form that blacks had expressed in the late 1980’s and early 90’s to the way racism is disguised between whites and black today.
The young man asked me why do blacks feel the need to have “Black Entertainment Television.” Doesn’t that seem a little much for black people to feel the need to separate themselves to that extent?
I thought about it. What is the need for that all that? How can I explain to someone who is not black the significance B.E.T and other things that blacks enjoy so much?
Due to a lack of a better explanation at the time, I told him the same thing that any black person would say in the same situation. “It is a black thing, we have to have something that is ours, that nobody else could lay claim to.”
Oddly enough, this seemed to satisfy him! This came to as a big shock to me.
But after answering, I don’t think that this satisfied my own inquires about the significance of such things.
Black entertainment television is owned by a white corporation, there is no sign there that says ” Black owned and operated.” Sure it has programming that is geared to African Americans but at the heart of it all- B.E.T sold out a long time ago.
On the contrary, lets turn the tables, image if another television station let’s say ” W.E.T” (White Entertainment Television) establishes a television station that for whites. How would blacks feel?
Pissed off! That’s a pretty missed up situation, but I can almost guarantee that their would be so many blacks upset that there would be protesting and demonstrations in the streets until the issue was resolved.
So why don’t whites care about the B.E.T and other things that blacks hold so dear? Plain and simple- in most cases they have their hand in our pocket and in the case of B.E.T- they just plain own it!
Now think about itÉ Blacks are the minority in America and have come so far in the fight for racial equality, but really do we have the need deny others the things that we hold as our own?
No- so the whole concept of reverse racism goes out the window. Blacks feel that they have things that are for them, things that they can deny others of but do we really?
So much for that that aspect of reverse racism. This is not to tell you what to think but rather what to think about!