1. Brooke Scarbro
Harold Blanco
First Year Seminar
2 February 2014
Five Racist Examples
The first example I give is of a player from the Seahawks had gone through
discrimination. He is a deaf man, but trains hard for football. One year he tried out for the NFL
but wasn’t drafted mainly because of his disability. So he trained harder and got stronger so that
there was no excuse to deny his place on the team. He made it.
My second example is from a life story of how when I was in kindergarten, one of my
best friends was black. My step-father grew up in a very racist home and tried to rub that off on
me. However, it was okay for him to be friends with black males, but not for me to be friends
with black females.
The third example I found was a Cheerios commercial that was aired not too long ago
with an interracial family that certainly caused an uproar in America
Fourth example, a little boy named Mariachi sang the national anthem at a Spurs game
and sang really well! However, twitter was full of racial tweets. One said, “This kid is Mexican.
Why is he singing the national anthem?”
My final example isn’t really racist, but many people believed it was. Many viewers who
saw the movie Frozen complained about how all of the characters are primarily white. However,
the movie is based on Denmark and its natives there—who are primarily white.