

The Caucasian race holds the title of “whiteness.” In today's society whiteness is used to label the "superior race." Through history white people have held the idea of race against everyone else in society. It has caused riots, wars, death and injuries. Because the white race created racism they have full responsibility of the issues and stigma, which follow it. This means they are held responsible for the privileges taken away from everyone else. They are held accountable for the discrimination the minorities go through everyday in all instances. Whiteness practices the white privileges leading them to be the superior race. Whiteness holds social, political, and cultural advantages in society. For those who are white they aren't aware of the advantages but for the surrounding races it is so blatantly obvious. But at the same time there is no changing it. Although race continues to be less of a factor of society the whiteness is still very apparent. Sadly, I think it will take years to fully erase racism. It does not help that in the cinema movies are labeled by the race of their main character. In movies that are staring African American who are a superhero it will be known as the black superhero movie. That shows whiteness has become the norm for literally everything. Now a day in TV shows and in movies there is at least one minority race in the group of friends, in the office, in the restaurant, etc. There have even been phrases now made up for those minorities such as the token black guy. All of these aspects contribute to the superior concept of whiteness. If it were not so taboo for there to be a white main character there would not be a need for all of the race controversy that follows the cinema. Whiteness is an adjective that holds a lot of meaning in today’s society, although it has changed over the years it has yet to be erased.
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