Defining Racism: Tatum's Article

(1.) […] In almost every audience I address, there is someone who will suggest that racism is a thing of the past. There is always someone who hasn’t noticed the stereotypical images of people of color in the media, who hasn’t observed the housing discrimination in their community, who hasn’t read the newspaper articles about racial bias in lending practices[1] among well-known banks, who isn’t aware of the racial tracking[2] pattern at the local school, who hasn’t seen the reports of rising incidents of racially motivated hate crimes in America—in short, someone who hasn’t been paying attention to issues of race. But if you are paying attention, the legacy of racism is not hard to see, and we are all affected by it.

This paragraph is the only paragraph that I annotated most in. It's the first paragraph and I think it's the most significant because Tatum stated that "someone will suggest that racism is a thing of the past" well, no it's not. There is still racism everywhere; all over the world and there's still racism in the US. During the period of 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his I Have A Dream Speech, and people think racism ended after he made his speech, but it didn't. "There is always someone who hasn't noticed the stereotypical images of people of color in the media, who hasn't observed the housing discrimination in their community..." I guess that means that people don't even pay attention to anything around the place they live at. If they don't, what do they do?