Don T Judge A Book By A Cover Analysis

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Everyone has heard the saying don’t judge a book by a cover. Sadly every minute of the day someone gets judged because of assumptions that are not correct. It happen to me a long long time ago when I was at a store buying shirts at the nike factory I was like 12 years old . I was buying some shoes and well I was looking at them and touching them and they were good shoes for running and I really like so people that work there they were starring if I was gonna steal them or something . But I was still loking at them and these white lady that works there she told me sir are you gonna buy them I said yeah I’m just looking at them and the lady told me you been looking at them forever and she told me agin for the 3rd time and she gave me that look …show more content…
So eventually she seem races to me because I was the only dark person In there that was Mexican . The thing is she didn’t understand nothing what I told her so she like ignore I guess and so I did payed for the shoes and I was telling to my self in my head I’m never gonna come back to this store at all .The lady told me have nice day kid ? so I said ok thanks you too so I left and the crazy thing I look bad and they just watching leave the store If I was a criminal or something …show more content…
Here the reason they I think because of my color and gender and race and there was a lot of white people a=In the store and I was the darkest one in the store .How did this experience make me feel It make feel like was a criminal and I was assumed of stealing those shoes which I didn’t and I felt like a was a bad person and they treat like was a different person which I’m not everyone should be treated right you know and everyone has a different race you know but still everyone should be treated right so this experience made me feel really bad . The examine Schoenberger is introduce to a a lot of stuff like it says in the essay about race and religion and other stuff to it. The reason Is people don’t understand how bad it is too make fun others because if there color and race and so the author is going to focus what perevents from the relgion . The main point that I expect is basis of in the case of a reglion . Everyone has heard the saying don’t judge a book by a

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