Grandmother's Victory

There are thousands of children in this world that get hit, bullied, and picked on each day and it is called “racism.” The effects of racism have been tragic in some countries, with demonstrable a physical and emotional effects on children. Some important reasons for studying racism relate to behavioral factors contributing to poor health and health care. This paper will show how racism affects children as well as show how men, women, and children of all orientations, races, and backgrounds are subject to racism everyday of their lives. It is sad that policeman are guilty of institutional racism. “The Stephen Lawrence case saw five white youths get away with the murder of a black boy because of the way the police handled the case” (racism). …show more content…
In the essay “Grandmother’s Victory”, white girls came inside the store and started rudely discriminating against the black family, but Grandmother showed her strong character by did not dropping down to their level of the racist girls. The granddaughter asked herself many questions about why her grandmother did not do anything to stop the bullying. As a reader ones sees the maturity of the grandmother as she demonstrates explains to her granddaughter that would not have been a solution bringing herself down to the level of the girls. Perhaps Angelou tried to tell us her childhood life experience and the time spent with her grandmother. As a reader one could tell that Maya went through a lot of pain experienced with white children racism. She had a rough time dealing with white children because they would not respect her. Now we would like to believe that we all have the same rights but back then Grandmother knew that they did …show more content…
“Ninety-one percent of respondents “believe in equality” and believe “everyone should be treated equally.” Likewise, 84 percent say their families taught them to treat everyone the same, no matter their race, and 89 percent believe everyone should be treated as equals. With that said, only 37 percent of respondents (30 percent of whites and 46 percent of minorities) say they were raised in families that talk about race”(Bouie). With this said racism comes from tradition from the family. In addition how they were raised and evaluated from the family to be when they grow up and also keep representing the thoughts of their tradition on how they would treat other human beings. Racism would not end in this world, but we can manage to calm down the situations and tried to negotiate good things between each other. Having enemies in this world are not beneficial for none of us. So as human beings we should look up for each other and try to support one another as we could move on and work as a team. Racism could be control by finding the way to make everything equal and avoiding