Assignment #2

Race is a topic that affects different communities across the nation. Not everybody believes that white privilege exists and caused some issues in our society. There are people that evade the past. They close their eyes, forgot how slavery, segregation and humiliation affected African Americans and other races established in this country.

 Race made everyone's life complicated on different situations. Is hard to believe that people that have power to rule our country do not see how much impact race has on its citizens. Is easier for white people to be in a stable job than African Americans, Asians, Hispanics and other cultures due to lack of support. Not everyone notices this because people get busy with life events, policy changes or economic issues. In a way, they are giving more power to the system to affect our development. Using slavery as a way to organize working class people was a mistake that was fixed many years ago. Everyone is equal now and race should not be a factor that defines work quality.

Sometimes is just impossible to understand how something so useless like skin color could lead to segregation at some point in time. Learning that in America slavery happen without the need of a war makes the situation very uncomfortable in our society. Joseph Loguidice explains on the story of the white man covered in dust how injustice uses race to be unequal to others. Nowadays, is very common to compare skin color with abilities, physical possession and personalities in our society.

The first step to fix this acts of  discrimination against different races and communities is to recognize racism, and work ways to stop it from spreading in our communities. Our government needs to make authority figures value and respect every race. Letting cops assume that young African American men that drive fancy cars are drug dealers while white men in the same car seen as spoiled brats is just killing respect for our society. Tim Wise mentioned how cops intentionally stop more hispanics and African Americans because they assume they possess drug than white people.