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Mahalie Hargis
Professor Harold Blanco
FYS
05 February 2014
5 Acts of Racism
1. My boyfriend and I were eating at Hibachi and he struck a conversation about their
workers. He wondered if Japanese people tend to work there more than any other place
because they would be accepted more.
2. My boyfriend pointed out when an African-American student walked across the road to
the rec instead of walking where the crosswalk was. There were other students doing this
as well, but he pointed out the African-American student.
3. Yesterday, I saw a Facebook share page of a mother who sent cruel messages to her
homosexual son every day and that she would not accept the person that he is. She even
said that she would never love him again. This isn’t a race issue, but is still a major
problem.
4. MSN is my homepage on my laptop and a story really stuck out to me the other day.
There was a blonde, white girl who went streaking with nothing on but a pair of shorts
and a bikini top during the last touchdown of the Pro Bowl. She also body bumped a

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lineman. She had all good intentions as she was doing it for her cousin who was
paralyzed in a motorcycle accident and couldn’t make the game as he planned. The only
reason that she didn’t get arrested was because Deion Sanders, former football and
baseball player, told the police he would bail her out of jail if she was arrested. Even
though this former player is African-American, would he have bailed the person out if
they were a white male. Would they be treated the same?
5. The other night, I watched a CNN special on the Seattle Seahawks NFL Player, Richard
Sherman. He has recently went through serious ridicule and racial degradation. After the
game that saved him a seat in the SuperBowl, he interviewed with a reporter stating that
others better not talk about him in an assertive way. Before watching the special, my
opinion was against Sherman as I had seen all of the media’s outlook on him. While
watching the special on CNN, I learned that Sherman graduated second in his high school
class and is working on his masters at Stanford. As he spoke, I could tell how properly
educated and calm he actually is. This is something that the media did not portray.