Reflection Papers On Racism

Not only has racism been around for years, but racial discrimination has also been an ongoing topic for many years, and I don’t believe that it will ever stop. Racism will always be there not matter how much kindhearted people try to put an end to it. I live in a primarily white area, but there are other people of skin color that live there as well. In my town there are plenty of people that I have seen give glares to those of color, and its just surprising to me because of how far people have come to accept people of color. There are still those people who believe whites should be the ones to dominate, which used to be the case in past history, but today’s people have evolved, we as Americans are much more accepting to other races then say twenty or thirty years ago. I feel as though the younger generation people younger then me and around my age seem to be the ones who are more open hanging around people of other races. Considering the town that I live in is mostly full of white people, I have never been a victim of

I feel terrible when this happens because he comes home really unhappy and doesn’t want to go back to work. He is a white American man who is made fun of for having tan colored skin and dark facial hair. My own parents actually thought Dakota was Mexican, and I was so mad that they accused him of being Mexican, not a Mexican-American, an actual person from Mexico. I had to justify the colors of his hair and skin to my parents, it made me laugh because they don’t dislike him, they were just being curious. It makes me sick to my stomach that my that Dakota has to justify why he has tan colored skin, and in my opinion it doesn’t help that the only other white coworker he has, seems racist and doesn’t mind telling jokes. It just does not seem as though boundaries are set at where Dakota