Black Race Reflection

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I must say that I did not expect it too much a focal point, mainly on Black race; to be honest it made me uncomfortable and agitated in a good and bad way. I said this most especially about our discussion posts. If I am being honest now, then I must say that if feel that some people were not as honest as I would have like. However, I do think that it was a good thing because things could have become unpleasant arguments among us students. I feel like our discussions and work should be more than focusing on black people; to me, it was a disadvantage, we all had to pretend to say something nice without looking at the bad and the good. For example, blacks in America in general have being viewed and still being seen in a very negative light, even though we not all the same. What I expected was for people students most especially my fellow black students to not only talked about how blacks were being treated poorly, but also to opened an impartial, unbiased debates about things that we do that are wrong, in other words be open-minded, leave rooms, for constructive criticism and instead just saying we are being …show more content…
This was important to me because I was able to state my views and used my past experience as to the wrong and negative impacts the media give the public and how we don’t bother to check the facts. There is no question about it, blacks in the United States, are probably the least accepted in our society in every shape or forms. I think we need to keep making changes, take responsibly for the better, prove to the public and ourselves that no situation is permanent, but we do look to keep trying out best and make a change for the better while standing up for what is humanly justified as a

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