Beyond The Mirror
The quote that I can relate to is “Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart” by Ed Koch because of an event that I have seen in my life. It’s was a Friday afternoon and I was on the bus with my backpack, filled with textbooks and binders. I was in the second row of the bus by myself looking and seeing the students smiling and laughing about what happened in class or at lunch. I saw each person facial expression on the bus some were with contentment, misperception, annoyance, anxiety, and fatigue. As the bus began to pull off we just sat and waited in traffic with the …show more content…
I also thought about those young men who was targets of police brutality like Frank Jude, Sean Bell, and many others. I wonder to myself would the cop look at me as a typical African American or more than that because I was wearing my polo shoes, a pair of Levis super skinny jeans, and a long-sleeved southwestern carpenter shirt with a rich ginger. Do people see me more as an Individual or a person part of a group who would be considered guilty by association? I feel like I don’t identify with the African American stereotypes and I want not just the cops, but everyone to look at me more as an individual that doesn’t just fits a group but a person who has more to offer. It’s like the saying go never judge a book by it cover because you never know if that book can touch you in many ways. A person who doesn’t feel like they has to astonish a person just to be looked at. I feel like I definitely showed people that I’m my own person who shall not be categories into a main group. When I'm at school all my classes is not just regular classes, but I'm breaking boundaries because when people may think black they think dropout or a thug. I’m not a thug I want people to look at me as an individualist and not judge me as a stereotype. Also I want them to look at all I have accomplished for my community and
The quote that I can relate to is “Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart” by Ed Koch because of an event that I have seen in my life. It’s was a Friday afternoon and I was on the bus with my backpack, filled with textbooks and binders. I was in the second row of the bus by myself looking and seeing the students smiling and laughing about what happened in class or at lunch. I saw each person facial expression on the bus some were with contentment, misperception, annoyance, anxiety, and fatigue. As the bus began to pull off we just sat and waited in traffic with the …show more content…
I also thought about those young men who was targets of police brutality like Frank Jude, Sean Bell, and many others. I wonder to myself would the cop look at me as a typical African American or more than that because I was wearing my polo shoes, a pair of Levis super skinny jeans, and a long-sleeved southwestern carpenter shirt with a rich ginger. Do people see me more as an Individual or a person part of a group who would be considered guilty by association? I feel like I don’t identify with the African American stereotypes and I want not just the cops, but everyone to look at me more as an individual that doesn’t just fits a group but a person who has more to offer. It’s like the saying go never judge a book by it cover because you never know if that book can touch you in many ways. A person who doesn’t feel like they has to astonish a person just to be looked at. I feel like I definitely showed people that I’m my own person who shall not be categories into a main group. When I'm at school all my classes is not just regular classes, but I'm breaking boundaries because when people may think black they think dropout or a thug. I’m not a thug I want people to look at me as an individualist and not judge me as a stereotype. Also I want them to look at all I have accomplished for my community and