In the book section “Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege”, it is clear to see Europeans did not want to mix with non-Europeans from Africans and Native Americans. It is interesting to see how a law was made to prevent any white European women not engage in any sexual activity with a colored man, but yet many wealthy white European males had children with their indentured or enslaved African mothers. The book brought up an interesting point if the white fathers had to distribute their wealth to all their children than maybe it would have created a significant increase of black wealth to a segment of the population. White Europeans males did not take responsibility for taking care of their child if the mother was an indentured or enslaved African. …show more content…
Many politicians blamed that the African-American family values for the lack fathers in too many households. This was known as a “tangle of pathology” as mentioned in the section Debunking the Pathology of Poverty. I find it extremely appalling on how they were blaming the black values for having too many fatherless homes. This is just another excuse to make the black community look inferior and lack family values. I picked the article from the Washington Post, “White People think Racism is getting worse. Against White People.” from the addendum list. The type of sentiment of white people feeling like this is no surprise to me. As we saw last year in Charlottesville, the group of white nationalist protesting and yelling “you will not replace us” throughout the protest. This type of sentiment is only to keep growing as the population of minorities keeps growing in numbers. The president will make these type of actions acceptable and not denounce the groups who keep promoting this type of