Cardinals’09

While enduring my long journey for an online example of racism I found a great article at cnn.com.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/index.html

The main thing that I found interesting about this article was a professor at UCONN’s opinion about the topic.  Professor Jack Dovidio clams that up to 80 percent of white Americans have racist feelings that they don’t even realize.  That struck me as I read it.  I don’t think of myself as racist or bias, but when I think if I am one of the 80 percent who don’t realize it, I began to wonder.  Has America come to a point where such cruel ideals have become beliefs so natural to human beings that we don’t even realize it?  It really scares me.  He also added that modern racism is different the racism of the past.  That would explain why our typical racist of today doesn’t going around dropping the “N-Bomb” after every other word like Huck Finn does.  But is Huck Finn truely racist?  You can say that he is because he uses the word.  But what makes Huck Finn the only non-racist in an all racist-southern community in the mid 1800’s is the fact that when he see’s a black man who has run away and has no home, he see’s him as his own reflection.   Huck Finn decides not to bring Jim back because he know’s what he’s going through.  They both don’t have any money, any true family, a warm home, or any friends.  Everyone in society looks down on them, but if Huck was a true racist he would of turned Jim in.  He saw Jim as just another human being and decided to go to hell if that’s what it takes.

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