Following the assignment instructions, i asked four of my friends to have a chat with me about White Nationalism. I talked to Devonte, my brother, Nicole, my roommate, Karissa, a girl in my class, and Lance, a former fraternity brother. I started by asking them that they knew about the subject, and most of them didn't say anything other than they were racist or "what the hell's a white nationalist?". I proceeded to talk with them about what i learned, including the ideas about Jews and race mixing and info on cloaked sites, finishing with a talk about American history x (which we all watched the night before). Most of them had expressed confusion and disbelief at many of the statistics and ways in which racism has continued. I had a hard time getting over my frustration as i had come to think of a lot of the information as common knowledge, not realizing i was the only one who had taken the class. They all basically assumed racism was over and that things were better than ever in regards to race relations. They cited the numerous examples of recent integration, including an increased African American presence in the media and our election of the first black president. At some point i went to David Dukes you tube page, and all of my interviewees expressed disbelief that this was a real man who really thought this and Nicole was especially concerned on how many views each video had gotten. We talked more and i sort of ran out of breath talking because there was just so much that they didn't know about institutional racism and WN.
I feel very concerned about the lack of awareness of these issues, when every single one of them knew about kim kardashians divorce and who was currently dating Leonardo DiCaprio. I think to me it showed just how serious it is to spread the word and how the power of media can be used as a tool by white nationalism to expand and at the same time hide in plain sight.
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