This paper will concern itself with whether white people gain any benefit from attempting to end racism if they have gained so many benefits from it all these years. Micro aggressions in both Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks serve as perfect examples of the struggles that are currently present in the black community, and morally we would say that this is/should be enough to have white people on board. The truth of the matter, however, is that the end of racism may not necessarily benefit white people, as expected since wanting to end racism is a reaction from the struggle of minorities. In Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, micro aggressions depicted from the point of view of black people. It explicitly depicts the ignorance of white people while thoroughly describing the conflict inside the black person’s head of how they should respond to such aggressions if they believe they should respond at all. The situation on the train, depicts a black man with an empty seat next to him that a woman does not want to sit in. This event stood out because it describes the thought process of the reader if it were purposely refusing to commit a micro aggression. It steps pushes over the fear that it and the woman …show more content…
It is considered ideal for those of a different culture to get used to the dominant culture. What is problematic about it is that with growing multiculturalism the dominant culture should take the time to step into the minority’s shoes because it will help in political and social decisions if all groups are involved or at least considered. Even if we ignore the difficulty of everyone learning perfect English, there would still be the problem of other cultural differences. The solution would not be to rid the country of these differences, mostly because people will be defensive, as it is expected; the idea threatens to kill their culture. Instead it should be integrated and become part of society’s