This Black Woman's Anti-Muslim Rant Analysis

Introduction This article named This Black Woman’s Anti-Muslim Rant Show How Deep British Racism Goes by Joseph Harker suggests that we judge a person based on their race, religion, or their attire instead of by the persons actions of on their personality. This article is about a black woman who has admitted to verbally abusing a pregnant Muslim woman who had gotten onto a bus with two other Muslim females as well as a baby. The bus drivers tried to intervene and calm down Simone but she still continued to verbally abuse the Muslim woman. The black woman, Simone Joseph, admitted that had racially abused the female Muslim. Hanane Yakoubi, she has also pleaded guilty to threatening to kick her in the stomach so that she would “never have children again” (Harker). Simone had turned her in three days after the incident that had happened on October 13, 2015. She plead guilty and realizes that her actions was “unacceptable and it was out of character” (Harker). Hanane herself has been in a similar situation before in a different situation just because she was Muslim. This article relates to these concepts in Chapter 9 of the textbook: stereotype and prejudice.

Stereotype:

Stereotype in Chapter 9 is a “generalization about an entire category of people” (Ritzer 335). This relates to this article because that is what Simone is doing to Hanane. Just because she is a Muslim automatically what pops into people’s head when they hear that word is that they have a bomb or that they are going to kill everyone around them because if what happened in past years and what is going on now dealing with ISIS. She did not think that Hanane was her own person and not to be labeled as a bomber just because her race does have those issues, it does not mean that she follows that path. Hanane has dealt with this same type of treatment before and feels scared because of the way people treat her just because she is