The Importance Of Discrimination In The United States

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On chapter nine the writer writes different examples of what people say to excuse the things that happen in our country or to dismiss a comment from someone. The one that got my attention is the about Delete repeated word Obama and how they say that because we had a black president there is no racism in this country any more when in fact racism and discrimination because of your skin color is something that has being always there. Last weekend I was part of the ME Cha regional conference and one of the workshops I attended was about what to do with the president we have now and how can we help our communities. This reading reminded me of the struggle my genet are going thru and how 26 man were detained by Ice in Woodburn. Obama deported many people but this new president is openly saying everyone is a criminal, rapist or bad people when we are not. Discrimination because of your ancestry is happening in our country and we will have to work very hard to have a brown president in maybe 100 more years. …show more content…

I remember that when I was in high school one of my history teachers asked ask who we thought wrote the American history. In page 157 one of the critical social justice “There is no neutral text; all text represent a particular perspective”. I totally agree because even if a group of people collaborate to write something they all might have different perspectives but one will be the one putting more effort and word to the writing then the others. The American history was written by the whites and there is no other history that people value because they always value the winners version of the

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