Reading Response 5/10

5/10

After reading the article "Racism is a technology: Six links in a chain" I was a bit confused about what the main argument was from the author. When reading the title of the article I did not know what to expect, because I did not think racism and technology would relate to each other at all. After reading this article I have a better understanding of how your race and economic class does effect your accessibility to technology. The one question I had about this article is the credibility of the sources that were used when making the argument that Caucasian people use the internet differently than Chacinos and African Americans. This argument seemed weak and just kind of thrown into the article to make a point. I would think a lot of people would have to be interviewed and watched in order to make the claims that were made about the way the technology such as internet was used by different races. I do agree that there is different accessibility depending on where you live and what race you are, but the way in which the technology is used is questionable to me. I did not quite understand why he made the argument that different races use technology differently. I feel like this was an argument that was added to the end to try to make the reader believe the author more. If he would have just stuck with the accessibility issue and difference I would have believed his argument more. Some of his points were still very valid and made me think about accessibility issues to technology that I had never thought of before.