Haven't you noticed that the United States today still remains to be little countries within one large one? In my school, the division between races are a little bit too clear cut. It reminds me of the past segregation, "separate but equal". I thought that the "separate but equal" policy was outdated and abolished. It still exists today. I see it in my own life. I don't understand how race has to do with anything, but I see how it does affect everything. We all, including myself, let it affect almost all aspects of our lives. It shouldn't. Solutions could seem quite simple. Simply look past race. As simple as the solution can be, the United States is a comprehensive nation with people with different opinions. When one would try to get past the race barrier, another would remonstrate, perhaps implicitly, against the solution. Although race, to me, is not to be considered to be an integral part of our community, it shall remain as an important--to important for our own good--section of all of our lives.
Take a look around you when you eat in your cafeteria tomorrow. Are the tables all integrated with people from all different races? If they are, your school is moving quickly and well. If not, welcome to the world. The world is like this. Unfair? Life isn't fair; I hate this phrase. In all seriousness, look around, do you see divisions or unity?
To abolish racial tensions, issues, problems, etc. we could all do a bit. Honestly, I don't think that racial issues will disappear any time soon. Perhaps in a hundred years, yes, but now...probably not. It took over a HUNDRED years to get closer to equality for races (referring to Civil Rights Movement). It is reasonable to believe that it will take another hundred years to get TRUE equality in the U.S.... this is true, unless we speed up the process.
I have no idea what it takes to end racial tensions. But in my mind, I picture a great leader, like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. So I have a question for you, are you the next great leader?
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Don't know if this is the best place to put this, but I have been reading a book by Larry Elder recently and he has put the problem of "race relations" in America in an interesting, new light. And the reason for the racist problems in our society today?
It is for one reason—generalization--Elder says. The simple fact is that a majority of whites today are not racist—and as a matter of fact, it might just be the other way around. Many blacks of today unfairly accuse whites for their ‘plight’ and their (African-Americans) peoples’ failure to understand their heritage. Bad schools? White racism. Crime? White racism. Lack of good study habits in school? Biased testing.
To put it more bluntly, many blacks simply despise whites. Since the moment slavery began and well past its end, Jim Crowe’s demise, and segregation’s death, blacks have a preconceived notion of white supremacy, bigotry, and supremacy towards their race. The majority of blacks ignore the obvious progress that has been made by their race that they will attack any who do not have their same “they’re out to get us” views. Perhaps the fact is, Elder surmises, that the fate of the blacks is in the hands of the blacks.