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Tim Wise’s video, “Beyond Diversity: The Hidden Curriculum of Privilege - Part 5” resonated with me. In the video, he gave examples of institutionalized racism in institutions of higher education. He gave the example of the University of Texas ghetto party. The University of Texas is my alma mater. I graduated from the university of Texas a little over a year ago, and I have tremendous respect for the educational institution. It is a wonderful university and in a lot of ways it champions diversity. However, during orientation, before I had even started class at the University, I encountered more racial discrimination and sexism than I had at in my life. My college orientation began as I witnessed bleach bombs dropped on students of color and ended with a sexist party that depicted women in the office or workplace as sexual objects for men thereby championing sexual discrimination in the workplace (the name of the party is not appropriate to post in an academic forum). Throughout my college experience, I began to reflect on why I had never noticed racial …show more content…

At first, colorblindness seems like a great policy to conquer racial discrimination. However, colorblindness is a bad solution to racism. Colorblindness operates under the assumption that if we pretend race does not exists, then discrimination cannot exist, but race does exist, and historically racism privileged one race above the other. Racial policy, societal norms, prejudice, and laws institutionalized race into the everyday interactions of society. Our societal framework did not disappear with the civil rights movement. Rather, it continued, but was alleviated, and a philosophy of colorblindness was adopted. Colorblindness prevents progress, because it is impossible to talk about the societal inequalities people of color encounter if we cannot admit people of different backgrounds and experiences exists in our society. So, the system of oppression

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