How Is Society Judged Black People

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How are we influenced by society’s Judgement?
You walk down the street, you see a man with a dress on. What do you think? How about a girl with bright pink hair, a black man with a gun, a person on the large side eating McDonalds? Are they positive or negative thoughts? And are they really yours? Society the one thing that we all listen to, if they say it we believe it because who else is going to tell us the truth of what we believe is the truth. Society is judgemental. Over the years it has manipulated us to think the way it does through things such as social media. Posting images of skinny, size zero woman saying body goals or woman who have been photo-shopped with layers of makeup saying, this is beauty. As the images get faker and faker, people are trying to change. By the age of 10 three quarters of girls want to change the way the look, especially their weight. This is not right. We as individuals should not be ashamed of our bodies of the way
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This is the cold harsh reality. Racism. For years and years people have been brainwashed by society to think that the colour of our skin matter, that it changes our status, our class, our education and our human rights. Society has judged Black people for the way the look and on actions way before them, generations before them. Punishing them inhumanly because it thinks of them as less equal to Whites. If this is the case why not punish White men for Hitler’s actions? In the novel noughts and crosses, the crosses who have darker skin were deemed more important and worthy of things such as education, servants, jobs, income, food and water, while the noughts got nothing. The quote “You’re acting like animals or worse, Noughts!” Shows us how they were influenced by the words of society, centuries before them, with no given explanation, like us, told to think of the races in different ways just because that’s how they

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