Race Theory

While watching the "Critical Race Theory and Education" video, there was something that she said that really stuck with me, and that was "if you don't talk about it, then it wont happen." Today, there are racial issues all over the internet, television, and social media. But, years before, people didn't want to talk about racial issues because they didn't want to have to face the fact that it is around. The idea that if we don't talk about something that it won't happen is clearly not accurate because there are so many things in life that we don't talk about, but still end up doing. Because I have grown up in a time where racism is talked about everywhere, I have never had the problem of people not bringing up the issue. With that though, I am not usually the person to bring up the issue of race just because I feel that it is different for me to bring it up because I am a white female. We have been talking about this idea of the difference if a black or white person were to bring it up, but I still feel as though me bringing it up is different than a different race were to. Overall, the don't talk won't happen theory is not accurate and should not be done.