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of occasions where non-Whites were viewed as inferior. I grew up in an urban environment where I was exposed to a high volume of kids from various races. I never looked at any of the kids as “Different” or “Inferior”. Playing games and sports with kids who had common interest is something that attracted me to certain groups of people, not skin color. Having a Father who witnessed a Black man kill his Cousin, was an event that changed his view point on not only Black people but all other races as…

Claims in 1882. Winnemucca wrote this book to help highlight stories of her people and the interactions they had with white European and American settlers. Winnemucca hoped her writings would have the desired outcome of forcing change and getting public opinion and government officials on the sides of Native American tribes. Winnemucca portrayed cross-cultural interaction as inevitable. Nevertheless early interactions with white settlers and pioneers set the tone for all the following years of…

of all miscommunications. Excluding background differences, all people are human. They feel, they cry, they tend and they’re especially prone to mistakes and hypocrisy. In the novel, The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter, a white boy growing up in a Native American tribe is to determine where his true loyalties lie. The protagonist, True Son, comes to acknowledge the different pursuits of happiness and perspective of both whites and Indians, and ultimately becomes the wild card between the…

Catherine). Racial discrimination refers to the practice of treating people differently because of their ethnicity or skin color. Racism is a particular type of oppression that stems from the discrimination against an individual based on the concept that inherited characteristics, like darker skin, make them beneath their oppressors. Studies show that Latinos and African Americans are more likely to get pulled over by cops than whites.(Chokshi) Washington, DC, Fair Employment Practices…

Throughout our history, racism has impacted the way we live as a society. Everyday people are involved in traumatizing events or issues that affect the way they live. These issues include: social, economic, and cultural prejudice, and stereotyping. Racial views are influenced by the environment around us. Parents influence their children to have the same beliefs as them. Parents will unconsciously condition their child to socialize a certain way based on their own experiences. Some children are…

think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting senseless wars dying of poverty and AIDS unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner. The Danger of a single story is about having one sided perspective on different cultures and countries. Although the stories we read gives us depiction of what these people have gone through, the depictions they portray themselves in the story, make their readers…

about a white man asking another white man to borrow his phone because his had died. Without hesitation, the white man agrees. After using his phone the man says thanks and walks away. A few minutes later a black man approaches the same white guy asking to borrow his phone. The white man immediately responds saying his phone was dead, not allowing the black man to use it. After the black man walked away, the white man pulled out his phone again (Salads, Joe, YouTube, Racism Black vs White…

Have you ever seeing people vandalizing on a public transportation, and you were just sitting there doing nothing about it? I have and I regret my decision of silence. In the City of San Francisco, vandalism is a form of urban art, but according to SF Public Work, it cost around 20 million annually to recover the damage from vandalism. As a rider of the public transportation, our bus fee was raised several times because of vandalism. Why did I stay silence on the bus? I could have stopped the…

Imagine a place where children, white or black, don’t have to be taught since birth that there is a difference between people with different skin colors. Imagine your kid getting up to go to school, not even knowing or caring about racism. Also imagine your kids not having to hate black or white children just because they are the opposite skin color. Some kids grow up thinking, because they are not the same skin color they are less important than him or her. (McWhorter 38) Presidents Nixon and…

In Tim Wise’s book “White Like Me Reflections on Race from a Privileged son” (2011), Wise tackles the controversial topic of white privilege and how racial identity and whiteness here in America shape the overall lives of white Americans and adversely affect people of color. He entwines stories from his own life experiences from birth to present to make it both an easy read and relatable. Wise explains exactly what white privilege means and how this privilege is systematically embedded into…