The Importance Of Minorities In Society

In the words of Stephen Covey, “Accountability breeds response-ability”, otherwise interrupted as acumen, a quote referring to an individual who holds themself accountable because they are responsible for responding appropriately at any and all times. We Americans continually respond to minorities in our society inadequately as a result of a lack of communication, minorities from African Americans, to Hispanic and Latino Americans, and even those in the LGBTQIAA+ community. America was founded on Christian ideologies and the concept of its entire people having freedom, granting all Americans the right to their, “pursuit of happiness”. After all, the Ninth Amendment states that we all are “endowed…with certain unalienable Rights…among these …show more content…
It should be necessary for all Americans to not only know but abide by all five of these concepts because they would improve the quality of life for all people by improving the quality of character, which is a major goal of recent initiatives and movements like President Barack Obama’s MBK (My Brother’s Keeper) program and BLM (Black Lives Matter). My acronym “M.O.P”, stands for Magnanimous, Ostentatious, and Prolific which describes the needed over display of courage for a fruitful result, which would change the mindset of Americans creating a win-win atmosphere instead of maintaining this concept of “survival of the fittest”. This will cause America to push through every obstacle that comes our way with the end in mind to maintain a winning attitude. Healthy communication will lead to a stronger America, which is the result of understanding the value of life of those with in our society, having a mutual perception, and overall compassion or ubuntu. Poor communication has been a plague to mankind before there was a separation between black and white or even rich and poor, so the answer to all our problems lies in us beginning aware of the arts of being humble, peacekeeping, ubuntu, and structuralism. By galvanizing ourselves as “a people” we will reduce negative perceptions which will improve our ability to communicate. This reminds me of a statement a coach used to tell me a plethora of times on and off the court, he would say, “In life we don’t have problems, we just lack knowledge at times”, which translated to me as if we know more we do more. The main issue in America is a lack of knowledge of ourselves, our environment, and not to mention the world we live in and our minuscule decisions each playing a major role on each other, because if we were knowable of the power of communication with each other,