Equality Essay: We Are A World Of Equality?

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We are a World Of Equality .. Or are We ?

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of their skin, his background, or his religion. People learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite" as stated by Nelson Mandela, an amazing African American speaker. Some people just don 't understand, that the way we talk and see people reveals our attitude and opinion towards them. Whether it is a colored person, a white person, a disabled person, or a person that is able to do things other can not, they should all to be treated equally. The thing is, that is just not how it 's going on in society anymore.People have developed …show more content…

The fear inside those who are traumatized by what the dominant racial groups have done, was so great that that 's what their main focus was for most of their childhood and growing up, “The only people I knew where black and a lot of them were..dangerously afraid”(Coates 2). Coates Explains that the fear wasn 't in a couple of people only but that it had come to define the lives of everyone in his culture. They hadn 't accepted the fact that they were of less value in the eyes of others but they knew the world that they were living in and where they stood. When the description of a person that society has made for a certain group of people is not accepted it is impossible for that person to be accepted also,” When a critique of language that makes reference to disability is not welcome it is nearly inevitable that, as a disabled person, I am not welcome either”(Cohen).Cohen shows that those who have a disability fear not being accepted by those who have normal abilities because if they don 't respect what they are called they will not respect them. Those who don 't have as much power as others seek comfort in other things that make them feel better without necessarily letting the truth be told to themselves, “ The boys loved this music because it told them, against all evidence and odds, that they we masters of their own lives, there own streets, and their own bodies”(Coates 4). Those who did not have have control over how their lives were run, took initiative to find something that momentarily blinded them from the truth that they lived and gave them comfort. They feared not having control over themselves. They feared the dominants and everything they could do to them. They feared the fact that another race had

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