Vera Anyagafu, reporting from Florida, USA
The realisation that the United States of America is still struggling with racial stereotypes is apparently worrisome, owing to the general belief that the country with about 51 states, is a beacon of democracy and a country where the concept of human rights are held in highest regard.
It is worthy of note that most African countries find it somehow ridiculing to comprehend the fact that with Obama’s win as first black American President, cases of racial profiling is still a story told in America today, and there is still much of white privileges.
Social benefits to the whites in America also are often visible, which leaves one with the common belief that the blacks still do not share equal rights with their supposed white brothers.
To get a clearer picture here, it is important to point out that a common idea is that stereotyping causes prejudices and discrimination.
Although a number of the white Americans refuse to believe the fact that stereotyping is dangerous to communal growth, a good number of them are of the view that blatant stereotyping can lead to violence or acts of aggression between both races.
The fact that humans resort to stereotyping as a way of identifying with the in-group, could only be expanded to mean formation of biases for or against the in-group and the out-group which often times lead to conflict as evident in the US.
Highlighting some of the situational racism that are apparent in the US, renowned critic Mr. Eric Deggans said that the whites in America are favoured to the detriment of the blacks in the US.
Deggans noted that the situation, makes the white culture the generic baseline and excuses white poverty and crime as outliers, not reflective of culture.
According to him, “Prejudice is seductive, easy to use against people we dislike and racism here is ideally described to be a social construct fine-tuned in America to justify slavery of which we now seek how to unwind. And the Obama administration will not do much, because when one’s allays are not standing strongly behind, the situation becomes some sort of difficult to manage.
Obama has been accused of favoritism and the issue of racism has been part of his challenges.
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