Personal Narrative: Race As A Social Norm

Race is a something that doesn’t exist in my eyes.I see look at people the same way I look at computers, we’re made of the same basic components and do basically the same thing at the end of the day. Some computers might just be everyday computer used for basic needs while others are hardcore computers used for gaming but at the end of the day they are still just computers. It was around the time I joined the track team that I noticed how stereotypical I was. I thought that the best sprinter would be black and the best longest distance would be white etc. It was nothing like that. It was the complete the opposite. That when it dawn on me that race and the stereotypes that follow behind them are bullshit at times. On the team, it was either you had talent or you were there to get some talent. I joined a network that worked toward a common goal despite our differences. Honestly, racism didn’t seat right with me the minute I learned what it was and the horrors it caused throughout history. It 's was like trying to download a Apple operating system and trying to run it in on a regular Windows computer. It just …show more content…
It has become so emerged in society today that it 's now a social norm.For example, let 's take my high school. We may have called diverse because it we had mixture of ethnic groups but at the end of the day the white people hung out with mainly white people, blacks with blacks, Hispanics with Hispanics etc. I never understood why we did that to ourselves. We separated ourselves based on our race instead of trying to mix groups and get along with everyone. I 'm under the assumption that it 's because of a psychological thing; that we feel more comfortable around those who are the same as us. It was like my high school had four different LAN, Local Area Networks, in the same building. We all had the same information and but this racial barrier kept us