Taking Side #6- Yamato, “Something About the Subject Makes it Hard to Name;”

While reading this article Yamato talks about how Color people only go through racism.

She writes about how deep-rooted oppression targeted groups such as physically, spiritually, and emotionally abused to the point that they believe that they are actually oppressed. She goes on to point out four types of racism that people may go through. My favorite out of the four points was that I always see a lot of is white people main white girls and how fascinated they are with color girl’s hair. They are like “OMG can I touch it?”, or “How do you make it so curly like that?”. But for me personally I don’t not think or believe that is a form of racism just because they want to touch our hair. If anything than the whole world should be races because I love to touch and play with Spanish girl’s and Japanese girl’s hair all the time. It’s more of a form of curiosity than anything let alone racism. White girls are curious about black girls hair, like I curious about white girls getting breast implants.  I don’t really agreed with what Yamato is saying but I understand what is she trying to say. She said that white people are the reason why colored people are oppressed, but race and class also plays a role into it as well. For example if you hear loud hood music playing in a car, the first thing that pops in your mind is a black person. But if you know the opera is in town they you would assume that only white people would be attending. I connected to they article pretty well because I see myself on point sides of the fence. It’s either one-day I think like a person of color or the next I think like a white person. But one thing I know for a DAMN fact is hat I AM NOT BEING OPPRESSED BY WHITE PEOLE OR BY ANYONE at that.