Facebook Analysis - King Arthur Burt

Looking at Facebook, I came across the page of ‘King Arthur Burt.’ By looking at his profile picture, I could see that he is an African American male. In his picture, he is bending down low in front of a black SUV, holding an intimidating look on his face. His profile shows him to be heterosexual. He has numerous “favorite quotes” listed on his profile page which are song lyrics by artist such as Jay Z and P. Diddy. Both of these artists are African American as well and rap in the music industry. He seems to be strongly involved with his fraternity which looks as if mostly African Americans are involved in it. On his “wall” where people post comments for him, it was filled with comments from only African American men and women. One person wrote, “CALL ME SO WE CAN KICK IT IN THE D!!!” From personal knowledge and by looking at where King Arthur Burt is from, I can conclude that “The D” means Detroit. Another person (who was also African American) used the ‘N’ word on his wall.

Most of the pieces of King Arthur Burt’s profile are commonly stereotyped with African Americans. If I would have covered up his profile picture, it would have been easy for me to judge that he is of African American decent. His most recent wall posts are all by African Americans, which shows the race of some of his friends, especially because one person actually called him the ‘N’ word. I know that this word is not an okay word to use unless it is said by and African American to an African American.