Racism
Essay by 24 • April 27, 2011 • 553 Words (3 Pages) • 958 Views
There's a small town girl whose dreamed of going to an Iv league college. But her family cannot afford to send her. The reason that they cannot send her is because her father just got laid off from his job, and money is tight right now. Now, there's this inner city girl, which has always dreamed of going to college. But her family cannot afford it because her mother is a single parent raising five children and she happens to be sick. The first girl got the scholarship. The only reason she got the scholarship was because she was white. Not because she was more qualified or she was better academically, She got it because the other girl was Dominican.
Racism is a huge injustice that is always talked about, but never is it really delt with. Racism is everywhere. It's on the streets, in families, even in schools. They always say, "Schools a safe place", but when someone calls you a bad name just because of your race, it doesn't make you feel too safe. If you look hard, everyone is the same minus the skin color. The only thing different is our hearts, beliefs and our personality.
Racism doesn't always have to be skin deep. It may also be where you live, or your religion or so on. Now, just because someone lives comfortably in a nice house on a nice neighborhood, doesn't make him or her more superior to someone whose barely pulling through. It also doesn't make a difference, if you believe in god. Or, if you believe in Buddha. Whatever you believe in or chose to live your life is no one else's business.
The real definition of racism is this; a belief ones own race is superior. Which, in other terms means, they feel and think that they are better or more important than you. But no one is more important than someone by how they look, where they live, or what they believe in Etc. No one has a right to judge you that way. That's what makes it an injustice. By now, you'd
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