Eduardo Bonilla Silvia Summary

In this lecture the speaker, Eduardo Bonilla- Silvia, talked about how racism has progressed over the years. He started off by talking about how color-blind racism is the new ideology in America. Eduardo explained that color-blind racism is a way of discriminating colored individuals without being “racist”. It has come to the extent that white people are unlikely to experience disadvantages and overlook racism as a whole. He said that most of the time people don’t even acknowledge that they are being racist because of the new civilized version of racism. He explained how it has grown from the 1900’s, when race was separate and isolated from the population, to 2016 where it is has become intolerable to use racial slurs in. The speaker used an example of Donald Trump and how he is seen as not being racist to some people even though he holds prejudice views.
The speaker made me reflect on how the problem is not about if we have more or less racism, but whether or not we have racial order in America. Through my experiences I have seen many instances in movies, on t-shirts, or in the media that make racist acquisitions, but are not seen as racist because of how dramatically our culture has adjusted to this word “racism”. This lecture showed me that racism is institutional and people need to teach other generations that too. Educating others about the subject is the only way to stop it. I learned that racism control practices are not subtle, but rather invisible to most of the white population. Eduardo used another example of how people have recently been focusing a lot of their attention on the police; this is because some of the white population has labeled colored people as