My Life Experience: Inequality And Stratification

In this essay, I will be discussing my thoughts on my life experience as it relates to inequality and stratification. Race is real, even though people say you should not see race because it means nothing, but as we all know this information is not necessarily true. I feel a person physically appearance should not just affect the way people treat you, everyone should be able to get along or fit into this society without it being a debate of where a person belongs physically or culturally. Society is here to judge us all, and we have to remain strong as a union/culture to be able to survive in this cruel world.
At times I feel, with all the crime that is going on in today’s society, I sometimes perceive my race as negative, depending upon were you were raised, has a lot to do with your upbringing and how black people cannot seem to escape crime. Unfortunately, an amount of black families was brought up in poverty, and the socioeconomic status was low at the time. Personally, I feel if there is an abundance of black on black crime and were just …show more content…
In watching the presentation, I also learned that the African American community wasn’t afforded a lot of the opportunities as the whites, so my parents probably didn’t have an opportunity to even move up the ladder if they even wanted to, also Black wealth was always frowned upon or thought of as a poor culture to the fact that, we were always separated from even wanted to do better in our lives, as well as being able to provide a decent life for our families. I feel this is a similar experience that I am experiencing in the workplace, that because of my skin color, there have been opportunities that were not afforded to me, as well as higher positions that I considered myself to be qualified for, but were not given to me because of my ethnic background. Racism certainly still exist in the workplace no matter where you