Post 9

Although people think most racism died years ago there are still people who are explicitly racist and in reality a majority of people have implicit bias against other races. A great example of explicit racism is the hate groups that are located across the country such as the KKK. Although not as present as in was in the past explicit racism is still alive across the country. Implicit racism is being bias against other races unintentionally. The video of a white person stealing a bike and a black person stealing a bike clearly shows this. Both guys were stealing the bike but for some reason people only called the police on the black person and some people even helped the white person cut the lock. Although not intentional this is still being bias against black people. I like to think that I am not racist but I could be and not even notice it. If I am being honest there have been times growing up where i have judge people by the color of their skin because it is how society constructs them to be worse than white people and it is society implying this that causes people to be implicitly bias.
             Being a white male I would be considered very privileged. I grew up in a good area with good schools and plenty of opportunities. Growing up black it is more likely that they would grow up in a worse school and a worse neighborhood than I did. even though there is no difference between us other than the color of our skin it is still more likely for black people to grow up in poverty and in a bad area. This can be connected to employers implicit bias or racism and them being more likely to hire white people even if they do not mean to. White people have more privilege and having more opportunity to make money.  In my current school the number of white students is much greater than the number of black students who are enrolled there. My school is considered a good school and this shows how white kids growing up have more privilege than the majority of black students growing up.
         

Post 8

Growing up I had no idea of the huge wealth gap between the top 1% and the rest of the country. And also how it is nearly impossible to move up to the 1%, and not very many people from poverty move up in social class during their lifetime. The distribution of wealth in the country is skewed so far to the top percent that the middle class is very close to being in poverty. People who are born in a upper middle class family are more likely to go to college and therefore make more money in their lifetime than those who can't afford to go to college. But even if you go to college, you aren't making nearly enough money so it helps to be born into a wealthy family. Social mobility is someone's ability to move up or down from a social class.

        It is way more likely for someone to move down in social class, such as the man from the movie The Line. He was a wealthy man with a family but then something went wrong and he lost everything he had. He had moved from the upper middle class to the lower class . Once he was in the lower class he had a hard time making money and he couldn't move back up in class. In The rendija nickel and dimed Barbara realizes the struggle of living in poverty and how hard it is to make money while in a lower social class. She connected how it is easier to make money if you already have money compared to trying to make money while starting in a lower social class. Living in my area most people have a good amount of wealth and get a steady income. But despite this people can lose their money and fall into poverty relatively easily because the middle and even upper middle class is so close to the lower class that there is just a very small difference. This is a very big problem because the wealth in this country is skewed towards the top 1%.