Gilyard-Race Theory

In this examination of racism in the American culture I have never heard such a true portray of this long debated diverse-multi-cultural world and how it has come to be. This article starts off with a story of a student at Columbus University who is going to school, working hard, and gathering worldly knowledge. Makil is an African-American student whose professor challenges him to improve his composition skills. Throughout the essay many racial issues concerning rhetoric and discourse are addressed. Makil eventually turns in a paper of good quality and his professor questions whether it was a valid essay because of his race.The Article shifts views into how this story plays into what “race” is. Why does it have to be something brought up? Isn’t that what racism is in the first place? There can definitely be counter-racism too. This professor was trying to push the stereotypes further by trying to make the situation, a situation. The first mistake we make is by even laying out the framework through our head that White people are like this, Orientals are like that, and Latinos are this too. That is the underlying issue here. It’s just We, People are like that. We all are one, but through the media, through history and through our social lives we have become completely Racialized. I liked this article a lot. It has shined a new light on an old thought in my head. We never really take the time to step back to see that we are the ones who perpetuate “racism” ourselves by being prideful and proud of our heritage or false heritage. We all have the same heritage; we are all the same culture, just different ideas.