Reflection # 17

After reading these articles on Race & Racism I am very impacted with the way this country acted and still act towards blacks. I still don’t understand why this country was so segregated due to racial issues, aren’t we all created equal. Does it really make a difference the color of a person skin? The word race is a self-identification in which represents your ethnicity whether you are Hispanic, American or of other origin. Race plays a big part in racial discrimination and leads to prejudice. Looking back to events and indents that took place due to racism you can see how it affected our society. The event that really has impacted me the most has to be the case of Emmet Til. Emmet was just a young black boy that just for whistling at a white woman was brutally tortured and killing. After seeing the way these white men persecuted this young black boy I was shocked not only by the way they murdered him but by the way the court didn’t prosecute these men as guilty. How can a person be capable of murdering someone in this cruel way, and not be sentenced to death, was it necessarily?

In addition, he was not the only one who was exterminated by white prejudice folks. Mack Parker was a victim who was lynching. He was accused of raping a white woman. On the other hand, because of these events rights were passed and segregation was somewhat stopped. I honestly look up to the black people to gave there lives to make a difference in this society. For example, the famous black leader Martin Luther King who was shot to death for trying to make a difference through the American civil rights movement. Rosa Parks also played a part in this civil rights movement by not wanting to sit in the back of the bus. She was tried of not standing up for what was right and decided to sit in the front and make a difference.

In conclusion, the events that occurred in this point in time have to be the most inhumane things that happened but due to them society has change in a way. Even though this society might seem to be united we still have people who still discriminate our and who are racist against blacks. In my opinion everyone needs to stop being so racist and learn on how to be united and not segregated. But we first need to start by understanding that there are different cultural groups out there.