Video Reflection

While watching the videos assigned over the weekend, I found it sad to see how far racists go just to discriminate an entire group of people just because they have a different skin color. It's even worse to see how these issues are still relevant in today's society, shown by the video on the supermarket. The term "white privilege" came up in "A Trip to the Grocery Store", and it is still shocking to me that there is still more and more components to racism after all the analysis we've done in class. White privilege is straightforward enough, it is advantages that white people have that non-whites don't have, there's even an entire Wikipedia page on it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege It's hard to believe that this term is still being used today, many media sources, such as Huffington Post and CNN, have used the term in headlines in the past year. This really makes the evils of racism stand out as it influences something as trifle as buying items at the supermarket. Joy also mentioned during the video that her sister in-law has blue eyes and was very white. This reminded me of the Mary Jane candies in The Bluest Eye, where Mary Jane is essentially the beauty standard, being white and having blue eyes, and how Joy subconsciously describes her sister as such, emphasizing the word "white". As more time passes after analyzing the Bluest Eye, the evils that Morrison was describing are becoming more and more apparent.