After reading YongJi and Beidi’s post about today’s discussion topic, I realized that we have many similar ideas of the complication of racism. Racism is not just based on intentional actions performed by individuals that are colorism, it is more about what people deeply thinking and those potential thoughts based on what they learned in school, culture, and their own personal experience.

In YongJi’s response, he talked about how the schools in the U.S taught students that racism’s basic definition, and it is simply “BAD”, and non-racism is simply “GOOD”. However, most of the schools in the U.S did not teach people about the multi-perspective of racism, which you can simply say that it is not deep enough about the actual racism. Even though the schools had taught that what is “GOOD” and what is “BAD”, many of the social appearances shows that most people in most times consider “white” as good, “black” as bad, and this is nothing about the color of people; it is just simply about colors. This common thinking is spreading all around the world, which is also one of the causes of racism.

Also, there are connections between all the answers from different people in the class. In Beidi’s response about the topic. Non-completed learning about racism in the school can cause a fact that many people do not know what is the actual racism. According to Beidi’s example, “white will think it is threatened when a colored person walks around front their house. But I trust for this guy in the reading, she will not admit she as a racist.” many white people, but not limited to white, are having potential thoughts about “what is threaten to them?”, however, what those people are not noticing is that this thought is truly a racist thought, and they will not admit that they are racist because of that.