“No I don’t want to go to school. The kids there bully me because I don’t look like them. My nose is wider and my skin is darker.” Your child comes home with bruises and cuts all over his body. You tell him that he should go back to school and that he would be accepted for who he is, but deep down you know that this isn’t always true. You have no words to tell your traumatized child and this leaves you heartbroken. We live in a place where humans segregate each other by skin color. However, we created this place. We built a society that tolerates racism. In the articles, “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgements” by Robert L. Heilbroner and Not a Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland, we discover why humans tend to stereotype others and how being profiled can make a person feel isolated, humiliated, and question their existence. Stereotypes make it almost impossible to see a person for who they really are because we create
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Some often feel humiliated, angered, and singled out. Incidents in which a person is discriminated against will often stay with them forever. In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s article, “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”, she describes what happened on the day of her first public poetry reading in Miami on a boat-restaurant. As she walked with her notebook in her hand, a woman had asked her to come over to her table and ordered a cup of coffee assuming she was a waitress. Cofer states, “I know that it wasn’t an intentional act of cruelty, yet of all the good things that happened that day, I remember that scene most clearly, because it reminded me of what I had to overcome before anyone would take me seriously” (50). This incident not only stayed with her but also gave her the notion that as a Latin woman, she would not be taken seriously. After this experience, she realized that she will continue to live with the humiliating fact that she is forever labeled and
Some often feel humiliated, angered, and singled out. Incidents in which a person is discriminated against will often stay with them forever. In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s article, “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”, she describes what happened on the day of her first public poetry reading in Miami on a boat-restaurant. As she walked with her notebook in her hand, a woman had asked her to come over to her table and ordered a cup of coffee assuming she was a waitress. Cofer states, “I know that it wasn’t an intentional act of cruelty, yet of all the good things that happened that day, I remember that scene most clearly, because it reminded me of what I had to overcome before anyone would take me seriously” (50). This incident not only stayed with her but also gave her the notion that as a Latin woman, she would not be taken seriously. After this experience, she realized that she will continue to live with the humiliating fact that she is forever labeled and