“Where are you from?”
“St. Louis.”
“Yes, but where are you originally from?”
In “Diagnosing the Race Problem in America,” Seth Bloom asserts that “whites often experience similar emotions in their daily encounters with African Americans.” Bloom’s statement implies that part of the “race problem” originates from the fact that stereotypes persist.
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