White Like Me

White Like Me is a documentary on what it means to be white in America.  We have overcame a lot of race issues in this country over time.  Tim Wise, the author is an anti-racist person who is trying to show white people that we are blind to racism in America.  He is trying to say that white people are hated, not just minorities.  A documentary before this called Black Like Me was about a white man who used dyes to make his skin dark, and experiment to see how whites would react to him.  Tim Wise says instead of asking what it means to be black, but rather what it means to be white?  I really liked this question, it opened my eyes because nobody has ever asked me that before.

The documentary goes back in history to see where racism really began.  Even the senate and congress tried to give benefits to white people.  America even gave housing advantages to white people.  The G.I Bill did not protect black veterans, therefore they did not get the benefits that the white people did.  The government gave trillions of dollars to white people, where people of color had a difficult time.

Isn't racism a thing in the past? In 2008 Barack Obama was elected the president of the United States.  This meant a lot to African Americans.  Years earlier African Americans could barely even vote, this showed a lot of progress in America.  43 presidents before him were white males.  Certain states such as Alabama or Mississippi, only 10% of whites voted for Obama.

Eventually the documentary goes onto saying that whites are going to be a minority eventually.  Whites are growing very angry because they "want their country back"  People of asian decent and middle eastern decent are moving into America.  Taxes are a big problem in America, Americans are arguing that we pay too much for taxes.

This documentary really opened my eyes to what is going on in todays world.  Racism is still here in America.  Where will we be in 5, 10, even 20 years?