How Does Race Affect Social Attitudes Toward Racism?

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Grandma, you were still living when this experience happen to me. I also know that you have heard a lot discriminative sayings before. You were the one who taught me how to be tough and live past it. “It's ok to let things go.” as you always told me.
There I was, a six year old child wandering around my apartment building all by myself with no one to watch me.It was a dark and hallowed night.Not a lot of kids lived in my apartment for me to ask for directions.The night sky was pitch black as I look through the window in the stairwell. I remember that I was too scared to move in reaction to it being so dark in the apartment. “That was rude for the old man to treat me like that” I mumbled to myself while galloping around. It’s not my fault, that I couldn't quite understand him. I was still trying to learn English at that time.
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Looking back now, I feel that things have definitely gotten better such as attitudes towards race. Even though, America has gotten better towards racism, there still is a long way to go. No matter how much we think we have perfected social interactions with one another. We will always need a little tweaking because we are humans. That day has helped me become more comfortable in the skin that I am in. And has also taught me a valuable lesson that :There may always be that one person who will judge you for who you are.‍At the end of the day, you will need to shrug it off and move past

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