The Amazing Race

were a different race. We recently watched a movie on this topic in our American History class. That movie was “42”. It was about the first African American major league baseball player named Jackie Robinson. This movie showed what he went through from the other players ; because he was a different skin tone. Jackie Robinson was A very strong person both physically and mentally. He got treated differently from all the other players , and coaches just because he was a different race. Even though…

The owner also told Nidhi that rednecks that do not like other races may drive by and yell inappropriate things. She said that was the only true time that she felt unsafe and uncomfortable. Nidhi moved on from Michigan State University and put the experiences of discrimination that she spoke of behind her. After completing med school in Antigua, Nidhi is currently at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute in Baltimore, MD performing clinical research. Nidhi explained to me in our conversation of how…

of people, but not all of this group take the same actions as everyone else in the group. A more correct statement will include the words most or some. Another way stereotypes do not always work is based on race. Sometimes people tend to base how people behave based on which race they are from. Many people may say that black people are always getting in trouble with the law or doing suspicious activities. There is a problem with this statement though, the exceptions to this statement.…

It amazes me how racism is still embedded in our daily lives and we don’t even acknowledge or see it. It was amazing to learn that because some companies get government money for hiring and fulfilling their black workers within that company they hire them just for that money. That drives me to be angry and want change but how is change going to happen if the people…

Malcolm X is a great example when it come to evolution. Most particularly all race can relate to him until this day because of his empowerment. In the early life of Malcolm his father was murdered by the Ku-Klux-Klan, known as a supremacist cult. After the death of his father his mother was sent to a mental hospital which it effected Malcolm, he felt powerless to change his condition. When Malcolm x went to prison it had amazing impact in his life, he read every book that he can get his hands…

The Absolutely true Diary of a part-time Indian, is an amazing book. It offers an inside look at Indian life in America. It shows the hardships of being an indian. It shows how poverty directly affects a family or a community. The book also offers an inside look on how alcoholism can affect a family or a whole community. It also shows how racial tension can affect a community. It also shows how poverty can stop someone from reaching dreams and goals. The book is about Arnold, a young…

Mixed is an inside look at a mixed-race woman’s self-discovery. The author was born to an African-American mother and a white father in Philadelphia, on December 5, 1978. She spent her life in Pennsylvania until moving to Los Angeles, California. Although Angela Nissel became a successful writer with her witty sense of humor, it took years to accept her true heritages and to find her place on Earth. It is likely one of the most amazing tragicomedy memoirs launched in its genre. She has a…

Her words resonate with me; diversity is the one thing the human race has in common. Since my time at Yale, I have taken up the initiative to branch out and meet people I would not normally associate myself with. I embrace diversity because it allows me to learn and come into contact with new things. I am not your prototypical…

Looks at the White Boy,” this idea is put into effect when he states “where there is no vision the people perish.” He wrote to provide a more “meaningful reality” shown in literary works, but even through all of this urgent and powerful writing, his amazing ability to write is never lost (“James Baldwin,” The…

Growing up Mexican-American is the main reason I strongly believe in racial equality. Being of mixed race, one of which is considered the "superior race" dating way back, and one of which is a minority group, has given me the privelege to see what it is like being treated at both ends of the spectrum. Being in elementary school, I was the only mixed kid, the only hispanic kid as well, I was surrounded mainly by white kids and only a small number of African-Americans, and never really thought…