At 13 I Didn T Expect My Teacher To Be Afraid Of Me Essay

Our societies are trying to reach the equality dream, but the problem is that whenever we think that we have achieved that dream, we realize that we have not fulfilled it yet. Haneen Oriqat is an American Muslim writer, writes about issues of race, religion, gender, and identity. She opens her article “At 13, I Didn’t Expect My Teacher to Be Afraid of Me” by talking about Ahmed Mohammed a 9th grader student who was “interrogated without his parents’ knowledge and arrested in front of his classmates. Ahmed had brought a homemade clock to school, but was accused by his teacher of the suspicious object being a bomb. Despite claims of safety for the students, this wasn’t treated like an actual bomb threat. There were no lockdowns, evacuations, …show more content…
That makes it clear that it was a false accusation. Ahmed’s hard work and intelligence was not welcomed by his teachers. He is an American student who should have had an equal opportunity as to his classmates to bring his invention to light, rather he was discriminated based on his religion and ethnicity. The movie Zootopia illustrate a similar type of prejudice and discrimination. Judy Hopps is a bunny who plays the main character of a courageous and determined rabbit. She dreamed of being an officer since childhood. Judy faces the same type of discrimination that tries to kill her dream job. She was told that her body size was too small, and that a rabbit can never be an officer. Here it is important to point out that the city of Zootopia was presented as a modern city where justice is applied everywhere, and where anyone could be anything. It is a city where predators and prey can coexist and live together in a predation and discrimination free place. But in reality, we see how hopes gets criticized based on her size and type, she was hired as a cop but got a meter maid