3/31 Blog that is also late

Sexism is still a struggle and following under the domination of the patriarch is such a long standing system, it's hard to break away from it. Sure it's not as prevalent as it was back when there was a king and people were ruled under his power, but it's not gone. It still exists to some degrees. I have a friend that their mom works as a coach for swimming for many years and the ages she trains with show real progress and promise. She was soon replaced with a male younger than her, with little to no experience expecting advanced swimming techniques inappropriate for the age he was training and gained credit for all the people that my friends mom was technically responsible for training. The board that runs the program are mostly men and if not, women who are solely out to just enhance their child's training rather than the whole team.

Racism is another white elephant that we tend to just glaze over. We say we're over it and it's not around, but it's still there. People just don't want to admit it. One article I read was that a white child was shopping with her African American parents. But when confronted by shoppers and other people, they thought that the child was being kidnapped by the African Americans who happened to adopt a white child.  Read the article, it's really interesting to post-modern racism that still exists today.
http://www.newsweek.com/what-adopting-white-girl-taught-one-black-family-77335

What I've noticed about the technologies of today in regards to racism, colonialism, and sexism is that people are more freely opinionated on the internet. People are more inclined to speak their mind when dueling an anonymous account and not being accountable for the actions they make online and offline. Though there are ways of tracing IP addresses to comments that are more offensive than others, it doesn't hinder the fact that people are still more inclined to post their opinion more vocally and freely than they would in person. The accountability is lowered since people can't trace a face to the person and doesn't count as direct conflict.

In shows like "What if?" where scenarios are set up with actors to get local people in the area to react and see if they would stop a situation, the actors sometimes touch on the subject of racism and sexism if the role of the person stealing a bike was a African American man or a White guy or White Woman. People do react in different ways.