Who is the face of America? What does America look like? (21)

During his weeks presentation The question was asked: "How would you define America? How does that look?" And a few people described America based on things , advertisement they seen on TV for Ford trucks, or Levi jeans commercials with a young white boy running through a open field... But although it seems silly we all as Americans see how diverse we all are our race and ethnicity, religion, sexuality and on in on. Yet it seem unanimously we agrees America if it were given a face would be white. I believe this is due in part to the racial fantasies that America wants to give off to the rest of the world. I believe its also due in a big part to the media here in America which otherwise makes it crystal clear that "black, yellow and red skin" as diversity yet White skin is the "norm". So I think this is only significant to say the least: In order to have any hope of abolishing racism we need not distort the true vision of America, we need not ignore the small grievances rather be real with ourselves and one another that their is no "normal" race or skin but people who live and breath and all bleed RED blood. Racial fantasies are some very powerful notions that hold power to distort images like America and what a true American looks like. And when I think of America I see you New York City with millions of beautiful people with elegant and tribal origins and lovely skin tones stretching all across the spectrum from ivory's, to blue blacks. Now that's America, all people.