Johnson Chapter 3

The main thesis that they author is going at here is the thought that race and gender class have all become what they are based on captialism. Capitalism is the flaw in the system where raceism comes from. The thought that the way certain people are precived in this counrty is based on the fact that they lower class workers. Like it or not lower class workers are mostly black and most of the white businessmen are the captialist (the people who own the business and pay all of the lower class workers nothing for their work so they can make more money.) I agree with Johnson's thought that everything is based on money and without money in America you will be a nothing.

He supports his argument by saying that the top ten percent of wealthy people in America owns more than two-thirds of all the wealth, including 90 percent of all cash, and 90 percent of all business assets. And for the other 90 percent of Americans, basically screw you and you can not do anything to change the situation. He says that if you do not have alot of money than you will never have money and and if you in the hole with you money you will never get out. The system is ste up so that even if your a hard working lower class worker with two jobs and alot of experience, it will not matter you will never get promoted into a better job. This is the part of racism where I do not agree with Johnson. I do believe that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer butif you maximize your potenial and do everything you can as a lower class worker than one day you will succeed and make money. Most people who are lower class workers, instead of having the drive to get out of their bad situation, they sit around and have pitty on themselves and their situation.

I had alot of dicussion questions go through my head while reading this piece my first was, why is it precived in America that when people talk about lowewr class workers its to be assumed that their talking about blacks? I think that black people get the perception that they are supposed to be the lower class workers because of they way they handle themselves and they way they go about business. Dont get me wrong I know some knowledgeable black people that will do well in life, but at the same time I know more black people that I dont know how their futures will turn out. Blacks get percived by the way they walk, dress, talk, and believe it or not the music that they listen to. Rap music adds the the negative perception whites have on them. You can nto blame whites for thinking this way because most of rap music is about is killing people and selling drugs. My second question I had was, why homosexuals percived differently is class. I think it is because the thought that homosexuals are "the other" the thought that it is not normal to like the same sex. We should not think of homosexuals in a differnt way I think that, that is the way they are born and they can not do anything to change it.