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Black people should change the way they represent themselves to have a better image. In society, the black race is negatively stereotyped as uneducated, gang members, drug smokers/dealers. I believe that if black people change the way they represent themselves by focusing and going to school, staying away from gang activities, and stay from drug they will have a better image in society.
I do believe that others feel the same way as I do because they aren’t like the average black people, they are smart, non-gang members,non-drug smokers/dealers.
It is important in our society because stereotypes is occasionally insufficient and is biased: not every black person is uneducated, a gang member, or drug smokers/dealers. I believe that stereotypes
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The second graph to the bottom left shows the stereotypes of black and whites I.Q. scores by race and age. Trinity's Martin Luther King keynote speech reveals that that blacks are the key societal glue of American society as they are always perceived to be below everyone else. Even the poorest whites still see themselves better than blacks and thusfore do not strive the system for social change.

Statistics shows that 24% of whites believe that blacks are smarter or as smart as whites and that 37% of whites believe that they are smarter than blacks and those who believe that whites are smarter are more likely to agree that national benefit requires large differences in income. It’s an important belief for a status quo that features one of the largest gaps between the upper class and lower class in the expanding world.
These stereotypes are hard to prove if they’re all crossing each other. For many years, scientists have tried to prove that the brain capacity of black people is smaller than the brain capacity of white people, but no study can prove it true. People can try to prove that black people are not as good as other races, but in the end we are all equal to each other and are just different by skin complexation. The negative stereotypes of black people can be change if we work as a team. We are capable of thriving as we have done so far and this time we will sustain if we work

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