Bell points out that despite undeniable progress for many, no African Americans are insulated from incidents of racial discrimination. As a popular colloquialism puts it, it is time to “get real” about race and the persistence of racism in America. The very absence of visible signs of discrimination creates an atmosphere of racial neutrality and encourages whites to believe that racism is a thing of the past. Today, because bias is masked in unofficial practices and “neutral” standards, we must wrestle with the question whether race or some individual failing has cost us the job, denied us the promotion, or prompted our being rejected as tenants in an apartment. Modern discrimination is, moreover, not practiced indiscriminately. Neither professional status nor relatively high income protects even accomplished blacks…show more content… Delany, and Marcus Garvey.
In Chapter 3 The Racial Preference Licensing Act Bell has just read his friend’s Geneva Crenshaw’s story about legalizing separation again. The President signs the Racial Preference Licensing Act which basically will allow whites to discriminate openly for a fee that will offset the repercussions blacks would encounter as a result of the bill.
Chapter 4 The Last Black Hero is a story about Jason Warfield who was a black leader of the Quad A (the African American Activist Association). It is a militant community-based organization. It is about an interracial relationship between the leader of this black organization fighting for the rights of blacks and his doctor who healed him back to health which happens to be white, and the barriers they would have to overcome to be