Quiz #3

Sarah Barnes argues that blacks and females should be quite and never bring up issues such as racisim and sexism if they want people to treat them fairly. Another argument why she thinks people of race or certain genders(females) should quit complaining is because it will allow the problems and issues within racism to go away or dissappear. She belives that everyone has been delt their own cards and how you play them is how your future will turn out. So, she is saying that she disagrees with people who say they can not sucseed because of their families history or the financial situation they were born into. I agree with Sarah to a point, I agree when she said that almost everyone holds their own future in thier hands and if you want to succed it really does not matter what your past held. But, at the same time, it is alot easier for someone who is born into royalty to succeed rather than someone born in the ghetto with no money to succeed.

One concept that I related to Johnson's chapter 8 is when she said, if blacks wanted to be treated fairly with respect then they need to just be quite and quit whinning about their problems. When Johnson uses the example about the ABC special "True Colors" which showed how african americans can not be quite on racisim because the fact is that racism happens everyday. The show miced up both a white male and black male and put them in certain circumstances. The way each were treated differntly was astonishing. The black man couldn't get help from anyone around him when he locked his keys in his car, and he also was a victim of racism when he interviewed for a job. So the concept that black people need to stop complaing when it comes to being treated differently does not make any sense because, who would shut up if they were being held to a lower standard and treated differently.