REFLECTION 17:- RACE AND RACISM

For the past few weeks in my class, we have been discussing race and racism. This topic drew many debates and a lot of important incites to everyone. I personally learnt that everyone was of different color, style and nature. It was also prominently shown that everyone one on this earth believes in something different looks differently and talks differently. The next big debatable topic was racism, which is present everywhere and everyone, has experienced it at least once in their lifetime. Racism comes about in a group of individuals who think they are superior to other groups and they deserve everything. I was pretty amazed by some facts presented and how horrible it was back in the days. One example was that of Emmett Till, a teenager who was crucified for whistling at a white woman. When this documentary was shown, I was moved by it and I definitely started to appreciate more the things that are present in my life and for the time in which I was born. To me it was definitely ridiculous to kill an individual over something so minute. In today’s day and age, it might not be as prominent but it is still in existence. We the generation of today should try to destroy such thing as racism and other ethnocentrisms. I think so because we are all one and everyone should learn to love and live with each other. As an aspiring teacher, I am definitely going to teach my class about such tragedy and it will not be accepted in that room. I will teach them to treat each other as themselves while encouraging them to take that lifestyle on the outside to influence others. Thinking back now to that class period in which that discussion was held my mind is still at a lost in trying to believe that someone with a brain and a heart would hurt another human being like that. My conclusion is that they never knew better so we of today know better and should show it.