This week talked a lot about racism and discrimination and James Baldwin’s article My Dungeon Shook is a powerful letter to his nephew that empowers his to look past racism and discrimination. Baldwin described how racism has destroyed Americans as he writes how it was, “destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.” This sentence really caught my interest because I agree with him completely but I would like to add onto his idea because I think that the racist Caucasians destroy all sorts of ethnic backgrounds but I think that everybody also needs to add in how they are destroying themselves, some know it and deny it while others are blinded by it. Not only is this essay powerful and beautifully written but also I learned a lot from his messages and found one of his themes to be incredible, telling his nephew to love those that hate you, those that have put you in an unpleasant lifestyle, and those that put you down. I was able to understand how important it is to inspire others and to help others out when dealing with difficult and important issues.
I thought that the most interesting condition in Peggy McIntosh’s essay is 46, “I can choose blemish cover or bandages in ‘flesh’ color and have them more or less match the color of my skin.” I find this an interesting comment because I have actually thought of that before too and always found that to be odd with all of the different inventions and choices Americans have today. Why would it take 2009+ years for people to invent different colored Band-Aids when they even have ones with Superman (a heroic male figure) and Barbie (the ideal female body figure)? Noting that both are Caucasians. Not only is this simple product shocking but are many other privileges which I can understand and agree with, but there are some of her ideas of white privileges that I disagree with such as 17, “I can talk with my mouth full and not have people put this down to my color,” and 39, “I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race.” I disagree with these two statements completely because there is not reason for anybody, of any race, sex, or other background, to act this way because it is disrespectful and that it reflects the individual and I would never drag a group of people with those actions. I understand that McIntosh brought up the fact that many of the white privileges are not detected by whites, which I can see and I am glad that I read her article because it raises my awareness and I can do my best to minimize racism and white privileges that are unearned.
My family history paper showed me a lot of my past that I never knew about. I decided to go back farther than the 1940’s because the information I could find was at my will. I had books and everything from the 1830’s when my families came over from Germany. I had many family members go to war and were in the action. One was thrown on the dead pile only to be saved by a fellow American soldier. My family is in big into agriculture and welding. My Gast side owned many stores in the St. Henry area. My family was very successful. I found out more than I ever would have guessed in this paper. My family was one of the first founders of my town and they did much more than just that.
Throughout middle school I was friends with the farmers and hard workers. My school was nearly 98% white, catholic, and had German heritage. I did have one friend that was black and he would come with his grandparents to St. Henry during the spring, summer, and fall. His grandparents were the Mexican tomato pickers. That showed me a different lifestyle that I never experienced before 6th grade. His family stayed in a house no bigger than my living room and three people stayed in that house. They had no air conditioning after the hot days to cool off or any luxury for that matter. I never judged the Mexicans as bad or worse people but many people did in my community. If my grandparents never owned that caning factory I have a feeling that I would be as racist as everyone else in the town. The reason for me saying this is because my town has a very strong work ethic which most places can not say. When I went to college I have not met a dozen people that work as hard as farmers and people in my community do. My town is very conservative politically because we are a farming community and I think that brings out the racism to our community as well.
I feel that my race puts me at social advantage in my community. Very few people talk to the Mexicans or the blacks in St. Henry. My county history has drove out black communities out of this area. At one time there was a town of 400 blacks in Carthagena and the town was burned in the 1970s because people wanted them out. Being the only boy in my family of six kids gives me the upper hand of inheriting the farm when I get older. That is a big advantage for me because that is what I want to do someday. Like what other people said I do not have to worry about walking at night like women do. I think that no one is equal because people discriminate people no matter what. First impressions can affect everything the way people view a race. People will always have a little bit of discrimination against race and sex for as long as I can imagine.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Blog 4
The black race has been segregated and discriminated against for hundreds against. There has been the beaten, raped, lynched, and deprived a chance to be as equal as the whites. Blacks did not have to be a slave to feel the slave treatment through the US. They would be deprived good jobs, and the salary that goes along with it. There were two main approaches that blacks would consider to get their equality: violence vs. non-violence.
Non-violent:
The non-violent approach was an approach that some big speakers like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks used to get his word across to the public. This way was targeted more towards the black community to get them excited and to help push action to the government. Government does not want to see violence and if anything would make them not want to change the law in this case because it shows that blacks are not a civilized as white people. Non-violent approaches were very civilized and organized like boycotts and protest marches to the city. People would not obey the law in some cases and would end up in jail but they were doing it for a cause that they believed needed to happen today not 10 years from now.
Violent:
One of the more famous people on the violent side of the Civil Rights Movement was Malcolm X. Malcolm X thinks that if the government is not doing its job to protect the black man the black man should be protecting himself. He states that the constitution gives even the black man the right to own a rifle or a shot gun and he thinks that all blacks should. He does not think that a black man should go and kill a white man but he should if the government is not protecting the black man. He says that I am not fighting the white man I am just fighting the racist people which happen to be white. Malcolm firmly believes that the blacks have the right to fight against the racists, by any means that are necessary. I liked a quote that he said in the Ballot or the Bullet speech. “Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.” This to me is a realistic view on how many black people would have felt because they did not come here willingly and are not treated with any of the rights that America’s constitution gives to the white man. When the government would not even step in and stop white from the hangings that were going on in the US the black community should have fought for what they believed in. These blacks where humiliated, beaten, burned, and killed on this rope in front of hundreds of people in the crowd. People that believed in the more violent matter were also people that were tired of the white man raping the black women. They felt that they should be able to defend themselves and their women. Like Jean Owens case of being raped by 4 men and the men never being charged for anything but 15 days in jail would really piss me off too. This was something that happened on a daily basis and many whites would not be charged anything. Black people had to face more abuse than any race in the United States to this day. They had to face the physical abuse and emotional abuse on a daily basis. Violence was thought to be the answer to sum because it would be a temporary fix and make white people doing all of these bad things to the blacks. Some blacks also wanted pay back because of the way they were treated.
Both groups were hoping that they could end the segregation and ultimately bring equality to all people. Today segregation does not really happen any more and blacks are still discriminated against in some degree. Blacks still discriminate against whites to some degree as well so I do not ever think that there will not be any discrimination in the US but it has gotten 500 times better in the last 50 years.
Non-violent:
The non-violent approach was an approach that some big speakers like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks used to get his word across to the public. This way was targeted more towards the black community to get them excited and to help push action to the government. Government does not want to see violence and if anything would make them not want to change the law in this case because it shows that blacks are not a civilized as white people. Non-violent approaches were very civilized and organized like boycotts and protest marches to the city. People would not obey the law in some cases and would end up in jail but they were doing it for a cause that they believed needed to happen today not 10 years from now.
Violent:
One of the more famous people on the violent side of the Civil Rights Movement was Malcolm X. Malcolm X thinks that if the government is not doing its job to protect the black man the black man should be protecting himself. He states that the constitution gives even the black man the right to own a rifle or a shot gun and he thinks that all blacks should. He does not think that a black man should go and kill a white man but he should if the government is not protecting the black man. He says that I am not fighting the white man I am just fighting the racist people which happen to be white. Malcolm firmly believes that the blacks have the right to fight against the racists, by any means that are necessary. I liked a quote that he said in the Ballot or the Bullet speech. “Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.” This to me is a realistic view on how many black people would have felt because they did not come here willingly and are not treated with any of the rights that America’s constitution gives to the white man. When the government would not even step in and stop white from the hangings that were going on in the US the black community should have fought for what they believed in. These blacks where humiliated, beaten, burned, and killed on this rope in front of hundreds of people in the crowd. People that believed in the more violent matter were also people that were tired of the white man raping the black women. They felt that they should be able to defend themselves and their women. Like Jean Owens case of being raped by 4 men and the men never being charged for anything but 15 days in jail would really piss me off too. This was something that happened on a daily basis and many whites would not be charged anything. Black people had to face more abuse than any race in the United States to this day. They had to face the physical abuse and emotional abuse on a daily basis. Violence was thought to be the answer to sum because it would be a temporary fix and make white people doing all of these bad things to the blacks. Some blacks also wanted pay back because of the way they were treated.
Both groups were hoping that they could end the segregation and ultimately bring equality to all people. Today segregation does not really happen any more and blacks are still discriminated against in some degree. Blacks still discriminate against whites to some degree as well so I do not ever think that there will not be any discrimination in the US but it has gotten 500 times better in the last 50 years.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Blog 3 Japanese and Mexicans
The Mexican and Japanese were very different but in some ways exactly the same. Everyone that came to the United States at least in the lower classes had very similar goals that they wanted to accomplish. They wanted to make money and make a decent living doing so because life in their old country had few opportunities to keep themselves alive, employed and out of debt. The Mexicans were really going through some major economic problems as a whole in the early 1900’s and there was the Mexican Revolution going on during this time so people wanted to get out of Mexico and the economy is still why they want to get out today. The Japanese were having the economic problems of their own because they could not pay their taxes and they were stalked with hunger. These two groups needed to get out of their situation and go to a place to start over which was in the United States. Little did they both know that they were both going to be treated as lower class even if they had an education or not.
The book was talking about the rush of Mexicans coming to the US in rapid numbers because jobs were scarce in Mexico. These people came with the big sombreros on their head and they felt that they had pride for being a mexican. They filled up the streets and trains to get here because they had an opportunity. They located in the southwestern part of the United States which is where many Japanese people located. In Mexico there still are very few job opportunities because of the dense population. When the Mexicans reproduce they really reproduce which is why Mexico has such a high population. In the book it said the avg. American had 3 children while the avg. Mexican had 9. This is a huge jump in population to the United States and because of this happening the Americans needed to control the number of Mexicans that came to the US. The Mexicans were very important and still are very important to this day in age to the United States because they do many jobs that most of us do not want to do. The Mexican Americans helped build the United States International Railroad and connected the US railroad 900 miles south into Mexico. Mexicans did work on a wide range of job whether it was on a farm, railroad, hotel waiters, elevator man, or pouring asphalt. The Mexicans were very proud of who they were and built a strong community around themselves. They felt safe in their community even though it was a slum but everyone came from the same place and did not need much to be happy. This reminds me a lot of my heritage as well. No they were no Mexican but they never had a whole lot could maybe have been lower class but did not even know it. The families were united and neighbors would help eachother out because that built community and happiness. Your friends were your neighbors and when you have that feeling you can feel safe at night when you sleep. Unlike now in cities everyone has the ADT protection but where I live today people are still close and do not even lock the doors when they sleep because they feel safe.
The Japanese Americans were coming during this same time frame as the Mexican and they both believed that America was a land of opportunity. The Japanese came over with their families and some came as “picture brides” which where women who had a picture and a marriage license with someone in America and never met them before. Many Japanese Americans would come to start the American family farm which was much larger than the one that they had in Japan. The one in Japan usually had around 2 and half acres unlike the ones in America which could be in 40 acre plots. In Hawaii there was a big request for Japanese labor which in the book they had a receipt where a company was ordering bonemeal, canvas and Japanese labor. I found that very interesting that a company would order people as a product that they needed. But just as the Japanese were really needed in Hawaii the Mexicans where needed every in the south such as Texas to help with the crops. There were so many acres in Texas and Mexicans needed to be of assistance since many of the black labor wanted to move to the northern part of the United States.
Both the Mexicans and the Japanese had very low paying jobs. That would really stink because many of the Japanese were educated through high school and many into college. They were very smart individuals but where discriminated against so they never were able to get a real opportunity to work in a better condition. The Mexicans on the other hand thought that education would help them fit in to the society as well but Americans kept saying that why do the Mexicans need to know how to do anything. The discrimination was defiantly there and it still is today. These groups were assimulated into doing the things that they would be good at which was the farming and harder physical work. They were a lower class citizen to the English and were paid that way as well. The Japanese were paid 18.00 while the Portugues did the same work and got paid 22.50 This was just a way the Japanese and mexicans were treated because they where the lower class because they were not white.
There were some differences between the Mexicans and Japanese though. One was in the education. In the 1900 Japan believed that women should be educated alongside of the boys which gave them an advantage compared to most women that where reaching the United States. Unlike the Mexicans, many people including men and women where hardly educated at all. Also Japanese people also did not have the accessibility to come back to their homeland to see their family like the Mexicans could. Japanese were not likely to ever go back or if they would it would be at least 20 years. The Mexican Americans really had a different advantage when it came to migrating to “El Norte” as the book called it because the border between Mexico and the United States were touching. The border was pretty much nonexistent in the 1800 and early 1900’s because people were still locating yet across America. Illegal Mexican Americans could come to America and leave as they wished. Today that is really not the case. It is heavily bordered by 18,000 boarder patrollers and large fencing around some cities.
That is some similarities and differences that I have noticed about the Mexican and the Japanese Americans. Overall I think all of the groups that we read about this week had a mission when coming to America. They wanted an opportunity to succeed in a better life than what they were in before. They also came for money and a new beginning to start a family in a better place.
I hope this is what I needed to do for this blog because it was a hard one to start and come up with. On top of that we have that family heritage paper due next Friday.
The book was talking about the rush of Mexicans coming to the US in rapid numbers because jobs were scarce in Mexico. These people came with the big sombreros on their head and they felt that they had pride for being a mexican. They filled up the streets and trains to get here because they had an opportunity. They located in the southwestern part of the United States which is where many Japanese people located. In Mexico there still are very few job opportunities because of the dense population. When the Mexicans reproduce they really reproduce which is why Mexico has such a high population. In the book it said the avg. American had 3 children while the avg. Mexican had 9. This is a huge jump in population to the United States and because of this happening the Americans needed to control the number of Mexicans that came to the US. The Mexicans were very important and still are very important to this day in age to the United States because they do many jobs that most of us do not want to do. The Mexican Americans helped build the United States International Railroad and connected the US railroad 900 miles south into Mexico. Mexicans did work on a wide range of job whether it was on a farm, railroad, hotel waiters, elevator man, or pouring asphalt. The Mexicans were very proud of who they were and built a strong community around themselves. They felt safe in their community even though it was a slum but everyone came from the same place and did not need much to be happy. This reminds me a lot of my heritage as well. No they were no Mexican but they never had a whole lot could maybe have been lower class but did not even know it. The families were united and neighbors would help eachother out because that built community and happiness. Your friends were your neighbors and when you have that feeling you can feel safe at night when you sleep. Unlike now in cities everyone has the ADT protection but where I live today people are still close and do not even lock the doors when they sleep because they feel safe.
The Japanese Americans were coming during this same time frame as the Mexican and they both believed that America was a land of opportunity. The Japanese came over with their families and some came as “picture brides” which where women who had a picture and a marriage license with someone in America and never met them before. Many Japanese Americans would come to start the American family farm which was much larger than the one that they had in Japan. The one in Japan usually had around 2 and half acres unlike the ones in America which could be in 40 acre plots. In Hawaii there was a big request for Japanese labor which in the book they had a receipt where a company was ordering bonemeal, canvas and Japanese labor. I found that very interesting that a company would order people as a product that they needed. But just as the Japanese were really needed in Hawaii the Mexicans where needed every in the south such as Texas to help with the crops. There were so many acres in Texas and Mexicans needed to be of assistance since many of the black labor wanted to move to the northern part of the United States.
Both the Mexicans and the Japanese had very low paying jobs. That would really stink because many of the Japanese were educated through high school and many into college. They were very smart individuals but where discriminated against so they never were able to get a real opportunity to work in a better condition. The Mexicans on the other hand thought that education would help them fit in to the society as well but Americans kept saying that why do the Mexicans need to know how to do anything. The discrimination was defiantly there and it still is today. These groups were assimulated into doing the things that they would be good at which was the farming and harder physical work. They were a lower class citizen to the English and were paid that way as well. The Japanese were paid 18.00 while the Portugues did the same work and got paid 22.50 This was just a way the Japanese and mexicans were treated because they where the lower class because they were not white.
There were some differences between the Mexicans and Japanese though. One was in the education. In the 1900 Japan believed that women should be educated alongside of the boys which gave them an advantage compared to most women that where reaching the United States. Unlike the Mexicans, many people including men and women where hardly educated at all. Also Japanese people also did not have the accessibility to come back to their homeland to see their family like the Mexicans could. Japanese were not likely to ever go back or if they would it would be at least 20 years. The Mexican Americans really had a different advantage when it came to migrating to “El Norte” as the book called it because the border between Mexico and the United States were touching. The border was pretty much nonexistent in the 1800 and early 1900’s because people were still locating yet across America. Illegal Mexican Americans could come to America and leave as they wished. Today that is really not the case. It is heavily bordered by 18,000 boarder patrollers and large fencing around some cities.
That is some similarities and differences that I have noticed about the Mexican and the Japanese Americans. Overall I think all of the groups that we read about this week had a mission when coming to America. They wanted an opportunity to succeed in a better life than what they were in before. They also came for money and a new beginning to start a family in a better place.
I hope this is what I needed to do for this blog because it was a hard one to start and come up with. On top of that we have that family heritage paper due next Friday.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Blog 2 Slavery in America
How was slavery woven throughout the American society? This question is easy to see in our readings this week because slavery was the key to the uprising in America. One answer to this was the stereotypical black man the “Sambo” and the black maid. The sambo stereotyped as a lazy black man that was there just having fun and singing. The black maid was a lady who was bigger and always happy to do the laundry and make the food for their master. In reality the sambo was not a typical black man at all and the black maid was normally not big at all. The typical black man was a hard worker and the black maid was skinny often time being a rapped victim by their master. These two stereotypes were and attempt to cover up the wrong doing in slavery by showing happy picture of a black slave. Also slavery was the easiest way to get money because slaves were cheap and they never paid. As years past slavery only became to make more sense for plantation owners because there was a lot of work that needed to be done and it would be very costly to have any other kind of labor to be working for these owners. In the 1700’s there were no tractors or combines in the fields and there wasn’t any for hundreds of years to come. Farm work was hard and very time consuming and owners knew that slavery would make the most logical sense. If there were no laws against it I would have to believe that their would be some slavery but hardly any because of the advancement in technology. Technology put farmers into a place where they could plant and harvest the same amount of acres in one day to what a single slave would take nearly two weeks. Slavery was wrong but it only made logical sense at the time. Slavery did begin not long after the English moved to the Americas. It was not common at this time but there was a showing of some slavery. In the 1860 census there was 4 million slaves and 12 million people in the population. That is a lot of slaves but in the slave states only 4.8 % of people held slaves. This meant that every person that held slaves had on average 10 slaves at this time. To me this shows that not everyone had slaves or needed slaves but the people that needed them had a lot of them. This makes sense because the plantations were large in the south and it would take many people to operate them. Also there were laws being in place to allow the south to keep their slaves and make it harder for other people to take away that privilege. If slaves would run away they were according to law to be brought back to their owners.
How were all people implicated in it? This started when the slave owners took action in the government positions because they were forcing laws to keep the blacks from getting knowledge so that they would not get the idea of making a big revolt. The laws were to help keep the blacks under control and allow slave owners to do what they wished out of the slaves. They also made a fact that runaways would be brought back to their original owners. I would not want to be a slave coming back from being captured as a runaway. The laws really tried to make slavery legal and to keep it that way for many years to come.
What was necessary for it to end? I really believe that southerners believed that blacks were so inferior to the white man and with the laws in place I believe there needed to be a war. The slave owners had so much hatred running through their veins and would not give in until a fight. The slaves and the whites that wanted to free the slaves had to come together. They were too scared to do anything about it before and it took some leadership to come and fight these tough slave owners. Once the war began a slave owner was scared to go to sleep because they never knew if a slave would come into the house and kill them while they sleep. This war had to haunt the slave owners because they knew what they were doing was not right. I hope to believe that not every slave owner whipped their slaves and did bad things but there is no telling what all went down at a slave house.
Even today you can see how society controls people based on money. The rich class controls everything and everyone especially the poor. For instance where my mom works at Minster Machine there is a rich man behind the company. The company is getting slow right now and instead of cutting his large pay cut he decides to cut everyone else’s pay by 19% while he is making over $100,000 per year. In this day in society he is treating his workers like slaves because they still work the same amount everyday but with the pay cut it is hard for people to buy anything but necessities with that the little pay that they are getting. It is not like a person would leave this company because chances are there are no other opportunities for you to find a job anywhere else. Another example is people working at a Wal-Mart who are making very little income. This is fine you are young but it is not enough for the adults that have to pay for the insurance and mortgage on homes and the food that gets put on the table. These people are at the lower class in society and are forced to be because of the rich manager’s decision.
How were all people implicated in it? This started when the slave owners took action in the government positions because they were forcing laws to keep the blacks from getting knowledge so that they would not get the idea of making a big revolt. The laws were to help keep the blacks under control and allow slave owners to do what they wished out of the slaves. They also made a fact that runaways would be brought back to their original owners. I would not want to be a slave coming back from being captured as a runaway. The laws really tried to make slavery legal and to keep it that way for many years to come.
What was necessary for it to end? I really believe that southerners believed that blacks were so inferior to the white man and with the laws in place I believe there needed to be a war. The slave owners had so much hatred running through their veins and would not give in until a fight. The slaves and the whites that wanted to free the slaves had to come together. They were too scared to do anything about it before and it took some leadership to come and fight these tough slave owners. Once the war began a slave owner was scared to go to sleep because they never knew if a slave would come into the house and kill them while they sleep. This war had to haunt the slave owners because they knew what they were doing was not right. I hope to believe that not every slave owner whipped their slaves and did bad things but there is no telling what all went down at a slave house.
Even today you can see how society controls people based on money. The rich class controls everything and everyone especially the poor. For instance where my mom works at Minster Machine there is a rich man behind the company. The company is getting slow right now and instead of cutting his large pay cut he decides to cut everyone else’s pay by 19% while he is making over $100,000 per year. In this day in society he is treating his workers like slaves because they still work the same amount everyday but with the pay cut it is hard for people to buy anything but necessities with that the little pay that they are getting. It is not like a person would leave this company because chances are there are no other opportunities for you to find a job anywhere else. Another example is people working at a Wal-Mart who are making very little income. This is fine you are young but it is not enough for the adults that have to pay for the insurance and mortgage on homes and the food that gets put on the table. These people are at the lower class in society and are forced to be because of the rich manager’s decision.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Blog 1
"It is impossible to be an American and not racialize how you feel" (Cornell West). This is a strong statement put towards the United States because he obviously acknowledges that people in the United States are not treated equal. The thing is everyone is that everyone is the same because we are all human beings. The only difference is the thoughts that we believe and what the culture that you are surrounded by. The British and the Indians were completely different almost as if they were living on different sides of the world. Racialization is something that the British did when first seeing the Indians. Racialization is to categorize or differentiate on the basis of race or culture. By racialization the British identified the Indians as savages. According to dictionary.com a savage is an uncivilized human being, a fierce brutal or cruel person, and a member of a preliterate society. To the British this is exactly what they seen from the Indians. Indians were naked hunter-gathers with little farming and extremely uncivilized. The British were all about colonizing and setting up agriculturally and making trade routes back the home country. The British’s view of the Native Americans was that they were torture loving savages, unorganized, and argumentative. The British did not care if the Indians were all killed or migrated far away because they did not want to deal with these uncivilized people. On page 33 of our textbook A Different Mirror states that “Indians seemed to lack everything the English identified as civilized – Christianity, cities, letters, and clothing. Unlike the English, Indians were allegedly driven by their passions, especially the sexuality.” This line really shows that the English and the Indians are very different. To me the term savage is really a harsh word to put towards the Indians because I believe in all honesty that the Indians were nice caring people but the British were to stubborn in their own goals as a colony to care about associating with the Indians. Not every country that moved to the Americas thought that the Indians were savage like the French for example. The French thought that they could work together with the Indians and wanted to learn more about their customs. I believe another difference is that the British ran in to a different tribe that was more hostile than the Indians the French met. The British could not deal with the difference between them and the Indians which resulted in many wars and lots of blood. People died all over the America to the point where not many Indians live today.
So back to my first line of this blog. “It is impossible to be an American and not racialize how you feel.” This was very true then and appears to be very true now. There are examples all around us like what does a farmer look like, a white male that does not care what he looks like. Or a chink which is a person that looks Asian. Or a gangster which is someone who wears baggy pants and has their pants off their ass. We do not need to classify people because everyone should be treated the same and looks should not matter but they are judged by everyone everyday.
So back to my first line of this blog. “It is impossible to be an American and not racialize how you feel.” This was very true then and appears to be very true now. There are examples all around us like what does a farmer look like, a white male that does not care what he looks like. Or a chink which is a person that looks Asian. Or a gangster which is someone who wears baggy pants and has their pants off their ass. We do not need to classify people because everyone should be treated the same and looks should not matter but they are judged by everyone everyday.
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