Are Your Skin Color Should T Dictate Your Future?

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Numerous individuals think prejudice is still a big issue of the past when it really isn 't. Although it 's still continuing, a few individuals still criticize people with color of how their future may wind up. For example by seeing people with color working in low wage jobs or to some people working self employed as a auto mobile detailer or Gardner or other, most White Americans will think color people are poor. Although its somewhat true, lets not overlook that our president is African American; furthermore one of the wealthiest man on the planet is a Mexican named Carlos Slim. In this generation our country have wealthy people in each sort of ethnicity. Now days you’ll see different ethnicities with high paying career jobs, and not to mention …show more content…
People constantly joke around about how Mexicans are janitors or how Africans love fried chicken, how Asians are all smart and nothing less than that, and how White Americans are too white and lame. The quote of the photo is “Your skin color shouldn’t dictate your future” which is true until people realize it isn’t. This picture mainly focuses on only color people when it could really focus on every ethnicity. LICRA.org have various of photos of “your skin color shouldn’t dictate your future” of different ethnicities but not a White American.” Most likely their photos are saying that Americans aren’t involved and they are the awful ones since all the babies lined up are white. Obviously when a person see a White American, they think that they have power and don’t get bullied, which in reality it’s not true. An example would be when Facebook posted a video of two little African American girls was pushing a little American girl: throwing and breaking her toys, pulling her hair while a person is recording everything for social media. This proves that color people could be as mean and racist as an American person could. Another example is when Facebook posted another video of an American boy being insulted and jumped for being white and stepping into African Americans “hood.” This shows that they also are racist to White Americans by calling them names and even considering jumping him. Not enough? How about when social media posted a pic that Mexicans jumped a fellow American for voting Donald trump in a schools bathroom, or when they insult Americans in Facebook comments of how this is there country first and how dare them to vote for Donald trump and to leave the country. What this advertisement is doing is to make people with color have as much as much power or perhaps more than Americans. Most advertisements that talk about racism are always African Americans, Hispanics, but never an American. Honestly everyone

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