Racism is something that is talked about often, especially in
school when it comes to racism “blacks” have experienced. “At a young age I
already knew the standards for a girl like me as I become older they become
more obvious.” What this means is that as a young child you start learning
about race and racism; and this knowledge grows as you age and it makes you
realize racism is a horrible reality. Racism is something that people have
drilled into America’s
head and even though people claim that racism is “abolished” it is not even
close to being half way done.
Through out time Africans have been treated as slaves and later,
even though they were not slaves anymore, they were still discriminated for
being a different color. Not only Africans have encountered such events of
discrimination Hispanics, Muslims, and many others have been down this road. White
people have been taught that racism is right and they have the right to carry
such duty forward. The girls in the video “A girl like me featurette” think
that black people are suppose to be a specific way. They believe that a black
girl is considered a girl with a big butt, big boobs, nappy hair, stupid, and
etc. Even young people of other races start believing that they are supposed to
be a certain way.
For example some
people say that Hispanic girls are whores and they are all board hoppers. Young
people have heard these statements so much that they start believing that it is
right. Young people have the understanding that being white is the best and
that being black is wrong. When in fact they have no controlling over the color
of their skin but still they think it is their fault and they just start
accepting the fact that whites will be superior to them. At this rate African Americans
will always be remembered as slaves, Hispanics will always be remembered as
immigrants/aliens, Muslims will always be remembered as terrorists. Young people
have the understanding that the best race is the white race.
Gender can add on to racism. Gender can have a great impact
on how race and racism will affect the person. Girls tend to have their gender bring a
greater impact on them then a boy would. Being a different can be the cherry on
top the ice-cream sundae we call racism and cherry would be the sexism.
Girls tend to have it tougher considering the fact that when
a girl goes somewhere they are considered incapable of doing things that only
men can do. So people look down on them and being a different race would all
add up because being black or being Hispanic and being a women people (especially
men would not take you seriously). They take women being serious as a joke
because they believe that women are supposed to be cooking and being a house
wife they should be breaking a nail out in the “real world”. Race is something
people should not take so seriously, race is something that has been made up in
order to maintain superiority and dominance. Race is something that just categories
humans into different groups due to their ethnic background. America being the land of the free should not
have racism considering the fact that everyone in America
has derived from somewhere other than America. So the so called “Americans”
have no right to discriminate others for the color of their skin considering
the fact that the natives are the only ones who can shun the people that are different.
Although the natives had the right to do such a thing they did not and the
whites took advantage of them and they betrayed them. Which proves that race is
something that was made up, and most signs point to the whites as the creators
of racism; which would mean there is no such thing as race and racism should not
exist. And if there is such thing as race there would only be one race which
would be the HUMAN RACE.
