Former First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt once expressed “Pit race against race, religion against religion, and prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.” Mankind have a tendency of saying things about one another that can be very rude and prejudice. Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination some time may link up to each other, and some time they do not link up with each other. Stereotyping a group, rather it is by race, sex, or religion, can be discrimination depending on how it is interpreted by that group. Being that I am an American African female, I often hear that blacks are mindless and lazy. Lastly, I’ve often hear that all blacks love watermelon; however blacks are the total opposite.
Other races believe or assume that all blacks are mindless, when actually black people are very intelligent. Even when African Americans were in slavery they were still smart. For example, my great grandmother was born …show more content…
Because there are a great amount of black people on government assistants and child support, black people are automatically labeled as a lazy race, when actually black people are actually hard workers. For instance, my parents would get up 5 in the morning for get ready to go to work. Once they get home from one job, they would probably have only 5 hours to rest before going to their second job. There were times where my parents would have 3 jobs each so they can make sure my siblings and I have roof over our heads and food in our stomachs. My parents never wanted to apply for government assistances such as food-stamps or cash assistant, they would whether work hard to get what they want in life. Thus, my parents are a prime examples of not all blacks are lazy. I met couple of black people in college that are working a full time jobs and also going to school as a full time student, which I find to be very impressive because they still manage to keep straight A’s in
Other races believe or assume that all blacks are mindless, when actually black people are very intelligent. Even when African Americans were in slavery they were still smart. For example, my great grandmother was born …show more content…
Because there are a great amount of black people on government assistants and child support, black people are automatically labeled as a lazy race, when actually black people are actually hard workers. For instance, my parents would get up 5 in the morning for get ready to go to work. Once they get home from one job, they would probably have only 5 hours to rest before going to their second job. There were times where my parents would have 3 jobs each so they can make sure my siblings and I have roof over our heads and food in our stomachs. My parents never wanted to apply for government assistances such as food-stamps or cash assistant, they would whether work hard to get what they want in life. Thus, my parents are a prime examples of not all blacks are lazy. I met couple of black people in college that are working a full time jobs and also going to school as a full time student, which I find to be very impressive because they still manage to keep straight A’s in