A chat with the locals of Oxford

The first week that we were in Oxford a few of us had gone out. We met some of the locals, and mentioned that we were planning a trip to go to Amsterdam. The locals asked us why we wanted to go there. I stated that I would enjoy going to visit the house of Ann Frank, the Van Gogh museum, the Heineken brewery, and all the beautiful canals in the city. I had also seen a special on the today show where Matt Laurer had visited Amsterdam, and it looked amazing. They proceeded to give us a hard time stating that the only reason that anyone has to go to Amsterdam is for drugs, and that we could just get drugs in Oxford from “any black guy.”

This statement shows that the black stereotype is present everywhere. In the Bhattacharyya book of Race and Power there is a quote on page 25 where a young black man being spoken about by a young white child to his mother saying, “Look at the nigger. . .mama a negro.” This young black man stated that he felt imprisoned and it sealed him into crushing object hood by the words of this other child. In Durban high school the white students that became the minority began to feel the same way.

The Dolby article White Fright illustrates that blacks are seen as inferior being, and how the roles of racism can be reversed. This article focuses on a primarily white school that due to low admission rates begins to admit non white students. The non white students began to outnumber the white students. The white students were now becoming the minority, and began to feel that their academic achievements, freedom, comfort levels, and their options were beginning to become limited. “The white students began to feel resentful. That resentment expressed by the white students is under girded by fear; a fear that whiteness is no longer in control in South Africa, that the ‘other’ has seized center stage. White students sense that they are literally encircled by the dual threats of blacks and black economic prosperity.” (pg 9) It is see throughout the White Fright article that the fear of black violence is a constant theme.

The Mills article White Supremacy can also be applied to the original stereotype that all black men sell drugs. White supremacy is a racist ideology based assertion that white people superior to other racial groups. It is seen that insignificant traits such as race are related to significant theories such as selling drugs. This idea of white supremacy is so powerful that even non white people believe it. This idea of white supremacy is believed to have come from the colonization of Europeans.