Seminar
Methods for Change
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” I believe that so far in our history MLK was one of the most effective rhetors in our history, he and many others, for example David Thoreau, Rosa Parks, and the Freedom Riders practiced Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action in a way that impacted a whole country in changing the segregation of African Americans. For this reason I believe that Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct action are both very effective ways in promoting social change.
Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action are sound methodologies in creating change because when people in our history practiced these methods I have found that they not only affected one person to also believe in their cause but a mass amount of people to follow them in a relatively short amount of time. I just feel like when a person successfully uses these methods it is the most effective way in getting what you think to be right or your message across a wide variety of people because you impact them in a way that can help them open their eyes to what is unjust about their everyday lives, something I believe a simple speech cannot accomplish. It’s like the phrase “you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk.” Because by practicing Civil Disobedience or Non-Violent Direct Action you’re not only spreading your message to everyone around you but your also showing people that your serious about wanting a change and that your willing to go great lengths to achieve it. It’s like what David Thoreau was saying in his article, he was saying that if you want a change to happen then don’t go through life by having your hands in your pocket talking about wanting a change and hoping the majority will one day make it happen, you have to become the friction in the machine that eventually stops it. Like when Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus instead of the back, sure she got in trouble for doing it but her little action resulted in a bus boycott that ended up becoming one of the many important steps in allowing African Americans achieve the equality they have today. Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action does not always work though.
In order for these two methodologies to reach their max potential I think that they must be organized, meaning the group of people that are trying to get their message heard by using Civil Disobedience or Non-Violent Direct Action should have a leader that can use rhetoric effectively. That is able to turn their words into words that can persuade a wide variety of people to also believe in that groups cause because it seems when you just get a group of people together all wanting to change something they think to be wrong but they don’t have very good rhetorical skills or they just don’t fully understand what they are fighting for, these two methodologies fail or they just don’t seem to be as effective. Like for example what is happening in recent days with the occupy Wall Street. Yeah, I think they are fighting for a just cause but they lack that persuasiveness that a leader like MLK was able to accomplish among people that didn't understand what was so wrong about the segregation of the African Americans. Though the media coverage on the Occupy Wall street is not exactly showing any positive things resulting from this protest, all they generally show are people getting arrested resulting in their cause to have an image of negativity but that is why a leader would be so effective because they can be the person that can set down the facts and clear up the confusion. You see when MLK was fighting for the equality of the African Americans he was pretty much the voice that helped open the eyes of Americans all over the country by making public appearances’ and not only getting African Americans to fight for a just cause but also getting white people to hear him out and realize what they were doing at the time was wrong. An example of how MLK was such an effective leader was his I Have a Dream Speech and when he purposely went to jail and wrote his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. The words that he put on that letter was just full of very effective rhetoric that I would like to think had a lot of people agreeing and realizing from their mistakes, how he was able to appeal to the emotions of whoever was reading his letter was quite powerful. Like in a part of his letter when he wrote about how it’s easy for a person that has never felt the stinging dart of segregation to say “wait” and how he goes on to talk about why change couldn't wait and giving whoever was reading that letter various examples of unjust acts that African Americans were going through, the whole time appealing to that readers emotions. A leader that can organize a crowed and is able to sway a group of people to also follow his\her believes is a very important piece to the puzzle of social change. Leading me to agree with what someone said during the seminar, which was in order for Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action to be effective there must be structure.
I totally agreed to whoever said this during the seminar because when I look back at past instances when Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action was being practiced I found that they had some kind of structure behind them, they weren't just going for change without a plan and there always seemed to be at least one representative/leader that could get their message across numerous people in a peaceful way that made them look very approachable to millions. Some examples of this would be Mohandas Gandhi’s Indian Independence Movement, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Women’ Suffrage Movement, and the African American Civil Rights Movement, Now what do all of these examples of Non-Violent Direct Action have in common? Well they all had very good leaders that were able to help structure these protests, For example with the Indian Independence Movement they were structured by Gandhi, Rosa Parks started the bus boycott in Montgomery and organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, Women Suffrage Movement was lead not by just one leader but three leaders which were all pretty much advocating for the same thing and they were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. I believe all these leaders had a very positive impact on these protests because they were able to make the protests reach there max potential and kept it organized never letting things like the media cover effect the clarity of their message they were trying to get across everyone that witnessed there protests. I think without them these protests wouldn't have been as effective, something like what they possessed is what makes the two Methodologies, Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action successful and effective, Something Occupy Wall Street is missing.
In conclusion Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action are great ways in promoting social change because it helps open the eyes of people. There effective when they have structure that keeps them organized and they reach their max potential when there is a strong leader to help people stay on the right path. So is Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action effective methods in promoting change? Yes but they need the right pieces for the two methods to make them as impact full as they can be. Now if you are wanting to make a change in our society today, in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, “Be the friction in the machine that eventually stops it.”
Just Economic System
Bill Clinton once said that, “When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.” When I read this quote, to me I felt like its idea that education is the best way to help people reach for the stars is part of the big puzzle on if we are able to create a just economic system and what it might look like. There are numerous pieces to this puzzle though other than education, like raising the minimum wage so that the income gap between the 1% and the middle class becomes narrower. Also looking at the unequal distribution of wealth in our country and figuring out way to make it more equal is a good place to start when you want to create a just economic system.
The first piece that could make a just economic system is finding a way to decrease the unequal distribution of wealth in our country. How would we do this? Well on this site I found it talks about the Roman republic and how they redistributed there wealth among there people by passing laws limiting the amount of wealth or land that could be owned by any one family( Distribution). Now am I saying that we should go back to this, I think to an extent, not as harshly as the Romans practiced it but just finding a way to allow everyone to have a comfortable amount of wealth but not equal wealth so that competition can still exist because in a capitalist economic system there must be competition for continual progress. This brings me to the other piece of the puzzle which is finding a way to decrease the income gap between the top 1% and the middle class.
As of right now half of America is run by the top 1% while the middle class is not living comfortably, they are having struggles finding the money to put food on the table for their family. Now we are talking about two grown adults working minimum wage if not higher, how does it make any sense that they can’t get enough money to put food on the table or just be able to buy the essentials but also by the little extra things that the big companies are trying to sell to their consumers but how can they when the consumers don’t even have enough money to take care of themselves? I think a great idea to maybe help the income gap decrease is by paying women equally to men because if they work just as hard as men do and they have the same ability to do what men can do, why can’t they get paid the same amount that men are paid. Is it because we are simply arrogant, that we don’t want women to get paid equally because democrats want it and so that means republicans don’t want it? Do our decisions have to be based on red and blue? Well I don’t think so, if we want a “just” economic system it doesn't have to be totally based on wealth that everyone may or may not have but based on the moral well being of the people, an economic system that puts the well being of a person first instead of putting the well being of a company first. How do we get people to become more aware of these problems though? Well my best guess is education!
Education is a great piece to the puzzle of creating a just economic system because as of right now the United States is falling behind in this area. Yeah we used to have the smartest working force in the world but now we have slacked. Does this correlate with our economy, I think so because what I recall from a video we watched last week that talked about virtuous cycle and what do you know, education was part of it.
All in all a just economic system could happen it just depends if we are willing to take the steps required to achieve it, like education, decreasing the income gap, and trying to create an equal distribution of wealth.
Bibliography:
· "The World Future Council: Sustainable Economies." The World Future Council: Sustainable Economies. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2014
· Zuesse, Eric. "United States Is Now the Most Unequal of All Advanced Economies." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 08 Dec. 2013. Web. 27 Oct. 2014.
· "Distribution of Wealth." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Oct. 2014. Web. 28 Oct. 2014.
· Ryan, Julia. "American Schools vs. the World: Expensive, Unequal, Bad at Math." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 03 Dec. 2013. Web. 25 Oct. 2014.
Racism in the World
Martin Luther King Jr. once said that, “ I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war, that the bright day break of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” He believed in a dream where human kind would put all their differences aside and come together, hand to hand as one human race, as one big family. All the way back to when the American civil rights movement began to this day his dream hasn’t really come true. During our seminar we talked about and reflected back to what we saw in the video Crash and American History X, we saw news reports of the shooting in Ferguson, MO and articles of past racial incidents and all of these things put together has prompted our discussion on racism, we talked about what racism is in our society now and how it plays out. I felt everyone had very good input on those two questions but we barely talked about how racism might end. So how might racism end and what exactly is racism? In the power point it defined racism as being prejudice towards a targeted race believing one race is superior over another and well my opinion is that the best way to end racism throughout the world is to accept every person for who they are and to have respect for a person no matter their differences.
In today’s society racism plays out in many different forms, one of the forms that we hit on during our seminar was institutional racism, which is when institutions give white people economic, social, and political advantages while limiting people of color. We saw some examples of institutional racism in crash when the cop pulled over the black couple and sexually harassed the turtle neck guy’s wife. When I saw this I was really speechless, I thought that the turtle neck guy was going to fight back but he just stayed back and let it happen. It was the best he could do though because the cop that pulled them over was just trying to find a reason to get them in trouble and if the turtle neck guy would have punched the cop then it would have really put them in deep crap. This situation brought me to a question though that I don’t think I was able to ask during our seminar and it was, what is the main driving force for racism, is it mostly an emotional reason? In crash I felt like it showed many reasons on why racism in our society today might occur. For example when the cop that sexually harassed the turtle neck guys wife, I felt he was just mad and was trying to find that outlet that would help him forget about what was going on with his dad, so in that case the main driving force for him acting the way he did was emotion because later on in the movie we found that when the cop had to save the wife that he sexually harassed from the car accident he seemed to not care what race she was, he just wanted to save her, putting all his emotions aside. Is that the only example of how emotion can get in the way of reason? Well no.
In an article I read about a father getting shot in Walmart because of a couple who thought he was holding a real gun instead of a fake one was, I believe an example of white privilege because while you read the article you can’t help but think, if he was white, do you think that couple that called the cops on him would’ve assumed that fast that he was holding a real gun or would they of took just a minute longer to confirm for themselves that it was in fact a real gun. While I read this article at first I just couldn’t believe how they could have mistaken his fake gun for a real one, better yet how could the cops just assume and confirm that as a matter of fact he was holding a real gun that fast and shoot him without a second’s hesitation. Looking back though reading the article again I saw how emotion again could have gotten in the way of reason, the emotion of fear. I think this emotion of fear plays a role in racism today because in Crash it showed examples of how fear could lead to someone showing racism. For example how Sandra bullock automatically assumed the Mexican lock smith was in a gang and was afraid he was going to give the spare keys to a gang member, when in reality he was just an honest hard working man and father. or when the cop that tried so hard to be non-racist throughout the movie and picks up Luda’s friend but in the end ends up shooting the guy because the cop feared the guy he picked up had a gun and was about to shoot him. It’s like what someone during the seminar said, “Its human instinct to categorize people based on what they look like.”
When I heard that it did make since to me that it is human instinct to categorize people on what they look like and do. I also conclude that it is also human instinct to let emotions take control of what we do, stopping any sense of real reason because emotion is kind of what drives our reasoning as well. I can see how these two factors, emotion and the inept need to categorize things drive racism today because of what someone else said during the seminar about the study of the little kids and their choice of which doll was prettier and the other study that deals with colors and how the kids automatically categorized them. People do all these things on a daily basis whether they realize it or not, we find the differences between each other and go off of those differences and automatically assume that the differences we see in a group of people is the same for that whole group and we don’t really look at everyone’s character and how similar our character is.
So if it’s our human instinct to categorize people based on what we look like, how are we really going to get rid of racism in today’s world? Well I still strongly believe that the best way to get rid of racism is to stop looking at what our differences are and look more at the value of everyone’s character and find our similarities because it really doesn’t matter where you come from or what you do, you just have to show a strong sense of respect.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” I believe that so far in our history MLK was one of the most effective rhetors in our history, he and many others, for example David Thoreau, Rosa Parks, and the Freedom Riders practiced Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action in a way that impacted a whole country in changing the segregation of African Americans. For this reason I believe that Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct action are both very effective ways in promoting social change.
Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action are sound methodologies in creating change because when people in our history practiced these methods I have found that they not only affected one person to also believe in their cause but a mass amount of people to follow them in a relatively short amount of time. I just feel like when a person successfully uses these methods it is the most effective way in getting what you think to be right or your message across a wide variety of people because you impact them in a way that can help them open their eyes to what is unjust about their everyday lives, something I believe a simple speech cannot accomplish. It’s like the phrase “you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk.” Because by practicing Civil Disobedience or Non-Violent Direct Action you’re not only spreading your message to everyone around you but your also showing people that your serious about wanting a change and that your willing to go great lengths to achieve it. It’s like what David Thoreau was saying in his article, he was saying that if you want a change to happen then don’t go through life by having your hands in your pocket talking about wanting a change and hoping the majority will one day make it happen, you have to become the friction in the machine that eventually stops it. Like when Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus instead of the back, sure she got in trouble for doing it but her little action resulted in a bus boycott that ended up becoming one of the many important steps in allowing African Americans achieve the equality they have today. Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action does not always work though.
In order for these two methodologies to reach their max potential I think that they must be organized, meaning the group of people that are trying to get their message heard by using Civil Disobedience or Non-Violent Direct Action should have a leader that can use rhetoric effectively. That is able to turn their words into words that can persuade a wide variety of people to also believe in that groups cause because it seems when you just get a group of people together all wanting to change something they think to be wrong but they don’t have very good rhetorical skills or they just don’t fully understand what they are fighting for, these two methodologies fail or they just don’t seem to be as effective. Like for example what is happening in recent days with the occupy Wall Street. Yeah, I think they are fighting for a just cause but they lack that persuasiveness that a leader like MLK was able to accomplish among people that didn't understand what was so wrong about the segregation of the African Americans. Though the media coverage on the Occupy Wall street is not exactly showing any positive things resulting from this protest, all they generally show are people getting arrested resulting in their cause to have an image of negativity but that is why a leader would be so effective because they can be the person that can set down the facts and clear up the confusion. You see when MLK was fighting for the equality of the African Americans he was pretty much the voice that helped open the eyes of Americans all over the country by making public appearances’ and not only getting African Americans to fight for a just cause but also getting white people to hear him out and realize what they were doing at the time was wrong. An example of how MLK was such an effective leader was his I Have a Dream Speech and when he purposely went to jail and wrote his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”. The words that he put on that letter was just full of very effective rhetoric that I would like to think had a lot of people agreeing and realizing from their mistakes, how he was able to appeal to the emotions of whoever was reading his letter was quite powerful. Like in a part of his letter when he wrote about how it’s easy for a person that has never felt the stinging dart of segregation to say “wait” and how he goes on to talk about why change couldn't wait and giving whoever was reading that letter various examples of unjust acts that African Americans were going through, the whole time appealing to that readers emotions. A leader that can organize a crowed and is able to sway a group of people to also follow his\her believes is a very important piece to the puzzle of social change. Leading me to agree with what someone said during the seminar, which was in order for Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action to be effective there must be structure.
I totally agreed to whoever said this during the seminar because when I look back at past instances when Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action was being practiced I found that they had some kind of structure behind them, they weren't just going for change without a plan and there always seemed to be at least one representative/leader that could get their message across numerous people in a peaceful way that made them look very approachable to millions. Some examples of this would be Mohandas Gandhi’s Indian Independence Movement, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Women’ Suffrage Movement, and the African American Civil Rights Movement, Now what do all of these examples of Non-Violent Direct Action have in common? Well they all had very good leaders that were able to help structure these protests, For example with the Indian Independence Movement they were structured by Gandhi, Rosa Parks started the bus boycott in Montgomery and organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, Women Suffrage Movement was lead not by just one leader but three leaders which were all pretty much advocating for the same thing and they were Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. I believe all these leaders had a very positive impact on these protests because they were able to make the protests reach there max potential and kept it organized never letting things like the media cover effect the clarity of their message they were trying to get across everyone that witnessed there protests. I think without them these protests wouldn't have been as effective, something like what they possessed is what makes the two Methodologies, Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action successful and effective, Something Occupy Wall Street is missing.
In conclusion Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action are great ways in promoting social change because it helps open the eyes of people. There effective when they have structure that keeps them organized and they reach their max potential when there is a strong leader to help people stay on the right path. So is Civil Disobedience and Non-Violent Direct Action effective methods in promoting change? Yes but they need the right pieces for the two methods to make them as impact full as they can be. Now if you are wanting to make a change in our society today, in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, “Be the friction in the machine that eventually stops it.”
Just Economic System
Bill Clinton once said that, “When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.” When I read this quote, to me I felt like its idea that education is the best way to help people reach for the stars is part of the big puzzle on if we are able to create a just economic system and what it might look like. There are numerous pieces to this puzzle though other than education, like raising the minimum wage so that the income gap between the 1% and the middle class becomes narrower. Also looking at the unequal distribution of wealth in our country and figuring out way to make it more equal is a good place to start when you want to create a just economic system.
The first piece that could make a just economic system is finding a way to decrease the unequal distribution of wealth in our country. How would we do this? Well on this site I found it talks about the Roman republic and how they redistributed there wealth among there people by passing laws limiting the amount of wealth or land that could be owned by any one family( Distribution). Now am I saying that we should go back to this, I think to an extent, not as harshly as the Romans practiced it but just finding a way to allow everyone to have a comfortable amount of wealth but not equal wealth so that competition can still exist because in a capitalist economic system there must be competition for continual progress. This brings me to the other piece of the puzzle which is finding a way to decrease the income gap between the top 1% and the middle class.
As of right now half of America is run by the top 1% while the middle class is not living comfortably, they are having struggles finding the money to put food on the table for their family. Now we are talking about two grown adults working minimum wage if not higher, how does it make any sense that they can’t get enough money to put food on the table or just be able to buy the essentials but also by the little extra things that the big companies are trying to sell to their consumers but how can they when the consumers don’t even have enough money to take care of themselves? I think a great idea to maybe help the income gap decrease is by paying women equally to men because if they work just as hard as men do and they have the same ability to do what men can do, why can’t they get paid the same amount that men are paid. Is it because we are simply arrogant, that we don’t want women to get paid equally because democrats want it and so that means republicans don’t want it? Do our decisions have to be based on red and blue? Well I don’t think so, if we want a “just” economic system it doesn't have to be totally based on wealth that everyone may or may not have but based on the moral well being of the people, an economic system that puts the well being of a person first instead of putting the well being of a company first. How do we get people to become more aware of these problems though? Well my best guess is education!
Education is a great piece to the puzzle of creating a just economic system because as of right now the United States is falling behind in this area. Yeah we used to have the smartest working force in the world but now we have slacked. Does this correlate with our economy, I think so because what I recall from a video we watched last week that talked about virtuous cycle and what do you know, education was part of it.
All in all a just economic system could happen it just depends if we are willing to take the steps required to achieve it, like education, decreasing the income gap, and trying to create an equal distribution of wealth.
Bibliography:
· "The World Future Council: Sustainable Economies." The World Future Council: Sustainable Economies. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2014
· Zuesse, Eric. "United States Is Now the Most Unequal of All Advanced Economies." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 08 Dec. 2013. Web. 27 Oct. 2014.
· "Distribution of Wealth." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Oct. 2014. Web. 28 Oct. 2014.
· Ryan, Julia. "American Schools vs. the World: Expensive, Unequal, Bad at Math." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 03 Dec. 2013. Web. 25 Oct. 2014.
Racism in the World
Martin Luther King Jr. once said that, “ I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war, that the bright day break of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” He believed in a dream where human kind would put all their differences aside and come together, hand to hand as one human race, as one big family. All the way back to when the American civil rights movement began to this day his dream hasn’t really come true. During our seminar we talked about and reflected back to what we saw in the video Crash and American History X, we saw news reports of the shooting in Ferguson, MO and articles of past racial incidents and all of these things put together has prompted our discussion on racism, we talked about what racism is in our society now and how it plays out. I felt everyone had very good input on those two questions but we barely talked about how racism might end. So how might racism end and what exactly is racism? In the power point it defined racism as being prejudice towards a targeted race believing one race is superior over another and well my opinion is that the best way to end racism throughout the world is to accept every person for who they are and to have respect for a person no matter their differences.
In today’s society racism plays out in many different forms, one of the forms that we hit on during our seminar was institutional racism, which is when institutions give white people economic, social, and political advantages while limiting people of color. We saw some examples of institutional racism in crash when the cop pulled over the black couple and sexually harassed the turtle neck guy’s wife. When I saw this I was really speechless, I thought that the turtle neck guy was going to fight back but he just stayed back and let it happen. It was the best he could do though because the cop that pulled them over was just trying to find a reason to get them in trouble and if the turtle neck guy would have punched the cop then it would have really put them in deep crap. This situation brought me to a question though that I don’t think I was able to ask during our seminar and it was, what is the main driving force for racism, is it mostly an emotional reason? In crash I felt like it showed many reasons on why racism in our society today might occur. For example when the cop that sexually harassed the turtle neck guys wife, I felt he was just mad and was trying to find that outlet that would help him forget about what was going on with his dad, so in that case the main driving force for him acting the way he did was emotion because later on in the movie we found that when the cop had to save the wife that he sexually harassed from the car accident he seemed to not care what race she was, he just wanted to save her, putting all his emotions aside. Is that the only example of how emotion can get in the way of reason? Well no.
In an article I read about a father getting shot in Walmart because of a couple who thought he was holding a real gun instead of a fake one was, I believe an example of white privilege because while you read the article you can’t help but think, if he was white, do you think that couple that called the cops on him would’ve assumed that fast that he was holding a real gun or would they of took just a minute longer to confirm for themselves that it was in fact a real gun. While I read this article at first I just couldn’t believe how they could have mistaken his fake gun for a real one, better yet how could the cops just assume and confirm that as a matter of fact he was holding a real gun that fast and shoot him without a second’s hesitation. Looking back though reading the article again I saw how emotion again could have gotten in the way of reason, the emotion of fear. I think this emotion of fear plays a role in racism today because in Crash it showed examples of how fear could lead to someone showing racism. For example how Sandra bullock automatically assumed the Mexican lock smith was in a gang and was afraid he was going to give the spare keys to a gang member, when in reality he was just an honest hard working man and father. or when the cop that tried so hard to be non-racist throughout the movie and picks up Luda’s friend but in the end ends up shooting the guy because the cop feared the guy he picked up had a gun and was about to shoot him. It’s like what someone during the seminar said, “Its human instinct to categorize people based on what they look like.”
When I heard that it did make since to me that it is human instinct to categorize people on what they look like and do. I also conclude that it is also human instinct to let emotions take control of what we do, stopping any sense of real reason because emotion is kind of what drives our reasoning as well. I can see how these two factors, emotion and the inept need to categorize things drive racism today because of what someone else said during the seminar about the study of the little kids and their choice of which doll was prettier and the other study that deals with colors and how the kids automatically categorized them. People do all these things on a daily basis whether they realize it or not, we find the differences between each other and go off of those differences and automatically assume that the differences we see in a group of people is the same for that whole group and we don’t really look at everyone’s character and how similar our character is.
So if it’s our human instinct to categorize people based on what we look like, how are we really going to get rid of racism in today’s world? Well I still strongly believe that the best way to get rid of racism is to stop looking at what our differences are and look more at the value of everyone’s character and find our similarities because it really doesn’t matter where you come from or what you do, you just have to show a strong sense of respect.