This year in Global has taught me to be much more aware of my surroundings, particularly in terms of race and racism. I had always been aware of racism to some degree, but growing up the way I did, I encountered relatively little. In Global, we learned about how racism impacted people just 50 years ago, such as in the case of the
Scottsborro boys, and how it still exists today, like in the case of Trayvon Martin, or even OJ Simpson. To some extent, it was even prevalent in our own classroom; as a fellow classmate pointed out to me, in second period we are somewhat divided by race, with most of the white kids on the right side of the room, and most of the minority
kids on the left. Until this year, I would have never noticed it.
Very intresting point Joel you know i feel that we are all equal regarless of skin color i think that its all in illusion that society within all this time has created and implanted in all of us to believe in and to divide us.
ReplyDeleteVery good point. We've been talking about rasicsm all year long and how it's bad yet we are divided in the classroom in which we discuss it. Good observation.
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