Discrimination

Something very interesting happened to me today. We have grown up learning how African Americans were discriminated against for many centuries by the white man. We hear how the police used to make arrests based on color of skin.

"If you're Black, you probably did something bad. Lets arrest you to be safe."

Naturally we would think that minorities in these unfortunate situations understand how it feels to be discriminated against. They are cautious to not do the same to others, right? Wrong.

So last week in human development class, we got into groups to do a research project. Sitting across from me sat a black dude who was probably 22 or 23. Dressed in oversized clothes, he said with an extremely ghetto accent, "Yo, whos gon write the paper?"

He looked at the asian fob, then at the ghetto white boy, then at the Mexican fob. Finally he looked at me with my dress shirt and black rimmed glasses and said, "Hey, you do it. You look smart."

HONESTLY?! Because I wear glasses, you think I'm smart. Way to prejudge me, man.

Well...at least he was correct. ahahha


Moral of the story? Everyone discriminates.