369-375: Ezekiel the racist mind

This chapter was about the experiences of Raphael Ezekiel when he visits a white supremacist group. The members of these militant white supremacist groups see their ideology as a fight between good and evil, which they see white as good and non white as evil. As i was reading I realized that many of their ideas about today’s society and other races where based on fear. During Ezekiels visit many members threatened violence against him and tried to provoke him by calling him “Jew” or “Jew boy”. This made him feel like he was alone. Many of these people had many issues in their own personal lives. Some grew up without a father and are highschool dropouts or they lost their job when the factory closed down. Just like in the last entry the point that this chapter wants to make is that you can’t solve racism by being colorblind. People who are apart of racist groups want to blame all of their own problems on another group of people. These hate group start because the members to some degree are afraid. If we acknowledge that and educate the younger generations we could see a decline in these groups. I truly believe that racism is taught and not something you are born believing.