https://contemporaryracism.org/3226/were-one-in-the-same/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/3226/were-one-in-the-same/comment-page-1/#comment-767 Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:42:49 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=3226#comment-767 McKayle’s comments are troubling, because it creates this idea of sameness, which you talk about. When discussing race, it is not as easy to walk in somebody else’s shoes, because a white man can never know what it’s like to be a black woman and so on. McKayle definitely seems “well-intentioned”, but of course this is problematic because of the idea of color-evasion, and ignoring race in the hopes of reducing prejudice. I wonder how POCs felt when (or if) they watched this piece. I also find that this tends to happen in the media where it becomes “white-washed”, because white actors have greater accessibility for these parts, even though when you think about it, it doesn’t make sense. I definitely agree with you that your white classmates took the “easy” way out, because it definitely invalidates and discredits past history of marginalized groups’ oppression. I also question race’s place in art, because so many people enjoy different types of art that come from many diverse origins; I definitely think that in this piece, there should’ve been more diversity and especially, in leading roles.
It’s so important to remember that we are all important, but we are not all the same.

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