the beginning of something that i started writing;
I am truly disgusted by the stereotype of African Americans today. Being one, I am constantly approached with questions like: “How do you only eat fish, shouldn’t you like fried chicken” and “Wow, you speak proper english, you’re not really black”. I am not a history aficionado, but I think it’s time to stop stereotypes of people based on skin color. Maybe racism is too integrated into society. Maybe American people have a bad habit of bad mouthing other races that they pass onto their children, despite how ‘politically correct’ the news stations tell us to be. Maybe it’s really our fault. Even after years of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X fighting for our rights, we are still displayed as ignorant on t.v. and radio stations. Go into any ghetto and blacks are still seen as low-dwelling people, not smart enough to know to go to college or how to save to buy a house instead of paying a white man to rent. If you own your own house, aren’t in debt, and are college educated, you are seen as having “made it”. Maybe, it’s the white mans’ fault for not giving our parents the same textbooks as the white kids to get the education and advantage they have. I believe it’s a vicious cycle and both parties, the government and my people, are to blame.
