Personal Narrative: Discrimination Among African Americans

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class,since we can end up in any one of these classes at any point of our life.” when asked if she was poor class she answered by “had I been in the lower class, I most definitely wouldn 't be attending college” and if upper class “if i were of an upper class, yes i would still pursue college but instead of worrying how to pay college and everything else in my daily life, I would probably be traveling the world and having everything handed to me.” moreover now if she was of a different race,perhaps white or black, though she considered a part of the minority group but would face discrimination, which still exist but is definitely being denied. then she goes on by saying if she was a"superior race " things would be better in terms of institutions,job …show more content…
First entering costco I see chinese race dominated there many chinese were there and mostly seem like chinese american. and african american race there some white but really small percent. It was amazing to see how many family are here and this one family in particular i believe are immigrants who just came to america because they wearing african american clothing judging by it probably from ghana. Costco is a very loud and gigtank place a lot of talking and very busy, many people are dress really fancy maybe they came from sunday church. Sitting at food court there was a couple maybe in their late 50s next to me , guy was hispanic and girl was chinese and they were arguing about waiting in line the woman was so angry because guy didn 't go in register line and the guy respond was like I waited just like you in food court line . It made me question feminism because we want equal rights and when men treat us equal we get angry. the scene of gendered was pretty much normal many women were there with kids but i noticed how most of dad just went for samples while the women were shopping and taking care of kids and not many men are here to shop for goricese. While I sat there i saw at register their were a lot of women working their while the men helped them to load people groceries into their cart. Which I believe our society play a role in because we believe men are stronger so that acute malicay there job to load groceries while ladies are just scanning the groceries. when my mom was in line there was an african american family in front and someone cut them in line I believe that women was chinese who cut the line and didn 't know that much english and the african american family created a scene by yelling and i know Bell Hook stated in her book (Feminist Theory) that

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