Racist Family

While searching for media for the second week blog posts, I found this clip and couldn’t believe it. It was originally on the Tyra Banks show, but I found the clip on youtube.com.

This is a clip from the from the Tyra Banks show. It interviews a family who has very racist views and obviously believes in white supremacy.

This family is extremely racist and only believes that whites are humans. It is unbelievable that this family can have these ideas. They clearly believe that there is a difference in not only appearance, but also genetically/behaviorally/biologically between “race”. These children have no chance of having a non-racist view point due to the environment that they are raised. They will need to have exposure to a new viewpoint in order to understand that “race” is only appearance deep.

Unfortunately these children will have terrible views of other people as they grow up. They are unaware that their parents are naïve and ignorant. The children in this family grew up in a system, yet they do have the ability to make their own decisions or act in an individualistic way. However, it is likely that they will act on their own throughout their lives, but this will be based heavily on the views of their parents and environment. This is an extreme example of how systems affect the individual, but also a good example that can be applied in to most systems, although usually at a lower severity (meaning most of us are not raised by white extremists).

The clip can be found at http://youtube.com/watch?v=nZccnGspog0&feature=related.