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Essay / The Right to Self in America and Racism - 1175
Have you ever noticed that every time you express an opinion that differs from that of an African-American person, they throw the race card at you? the face? “You're just saying that because I'm black” has become the fallback if a white person says something against the way someone of a different ethnicity acts or even just expresses a different opinion than the politically correct one and socially accepted. In trying to eliminate racism against minorities, the nation has inadvertently raised awareness of racism against minorities, to the point where any action by a white person can be used to make that person racist. Even the esteemed President Barrack Obama used this ploy. More recently, in an interview with David Remnick for the newyorker.com article "Going the Distance" published on January 27, 2014, he bluntly stated: "There is no doubt that there are people who really don't like me because they don't like me. I don’t like the idea of a black president” (Remnick). Is it possible that he doesn't understand that people don't like him because of his politics and actions rather than the fact that he's black? If that is the case, he needs to return to the short bus and leave politics and policymaking to someone who has the common sense and intelligence to do it. Since it is highly unlikely that this is the case, it is more likely that he will use the fact that he is African American against anyone who dares to hate him for any reason. With the implementation of affirmative action approximately fifty years ago, the effects rippled across three, and in some cases four, generations, giving rise to a generation of young African Americans with an exaggerated sense of entitlement. -themselves. A gr...... middle of paper ......Answers to the racing question. (Cover story). " Legal Alert for Supervisors 5.101 (2009): 1. Business Source Complete. Web. March 31, 2014. Hammon, Brett. " Playing the Race Card: White Americans' Sense of Victimization in Response to Affirmative Action. Texas Hispanic Journal Of Law & Policy 19. (2013): 95. Texas Reference Center. Internet. March 31, 2014. Remnick, David. “Keep the distance”. The New Yorker. Np, January 27, 2014. Web. March 22, 2014. Sandholtz/BJS Intern, Nathan, Lynn Langton/Ph.D./BJS Statisticians and Michael Planty/Ph.D./BJS Statistician. Victimization of hate crimes, 2003-2011. NCJ Rep. Number 241291. Np: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2013. Print. Yan, Holly and Michael Martinez. "Cupcake sale at 'inherently racist' bake sale by UC Berkeley Republicans." CNN. Cable News Network, September 23, 2011. Web. April 2. 2014.