Final Global Reflection 2

Another concept I feel was valuable in terms of my development in the class was the concept of racism and acceptance, race has been an issue that continues to change over time but there is no guaranteed way that things will change for the better and all I can really hope for is that the future generation will be educated enough to understand the differences in others and accept them because they don't have an impact on their lives. What I have seen in countless of cases such as the Scottsboro Boys or Loving v. Virginia. The Scottsboro Boys were an easy example of racial ethnicity affecting the rights of an individual even by law, while the Loving v. Virginia was more based more on both the racial discrimination of an individual due to their race as well as the discrimination of an individual because of the racial groups they associated with. As a nation we have come a long way an now there are more rights to those who are of a different race, but I also feel that even though it has been less over the years there still isn't a solid solution for racism. What these concepts have made me see is to accept people for who they are and respect them until you know the story because one cannot judge one based on the color of their skin or the aspects they have solely because it is different, I feel that it has opened my perspective to being more accepting and if not insightful on not judging others based on things that don't matter. This class has made me learn and grow in so many ways that it may be hard to name them all but I can honestly say that I have developed as a person and even if I'm not fully prepared for the next step, college, I feel that experiencing the new ideas have made me prepared to be more open minded to new opinions in order to grow more from others and from what I learn.