“People have often misconstrued a series of events hand have cause serious turn outs. (My Quote)
In society people are often misconstrued as being of another color, ethnicity or in of lower class. Some might also suggest that people are often stereotyped to be something that they are not due to their appearance. In my personal life I have been judge by my appearance. In the story The Sky is Gray the title reflects how people can be something but feel like something else. It also shows how in the past people where segregated as black and white and now there is a blend of gray. In some places people are judged on their personality which can allow a judgment to flow and being eliminating the possible ethnicities. I interpret the color gray as me as a whole. When I blend both of my personalities together. There is the shy and quiet me and the powerful boisterous me. I can be perceived as the Dominican I am by my boisterous side and as a Mexican by my calm and shy side.
In life one can get in a lot of trouble for misinterpreting an action. In the film “The Murder of Emmet Till” the young 14 year old boy whistled at a white woman. One can see this in various ways. Emmet Till was probably showing a remark on how “beautiful” and she might have taken offense. On the other hand, the boy could have been whistling while exiting the store or might have mimicked a bird for fun. Either way little Till was murdered. In my personal experience I was holding a taco on a swing and was alleged to be a Mexican person. In consequence to this thought I was not hurt as bad as Emmet Till but I was pushed to the floor, humiliated and degraded from the social class I was. In both cases both Mr. Till and my actions has cause us great pain and have given other grief.
In the story “Everything That Rises Must Converge” the author Flannery O’Connor suggests that “It takes time, and the world is in such as mess.” The world throughout history has been a mess and has been molded the world’s general perspective. During the time of the Jim Crow laws that world was molded into such as place that segregation was grasped for too long. Thus, contributing to the hardships that people of color have been thought the past decades. One can see that the world is in a mess that people have to have separate bathrooms, and children have to choose what race they prefer. During the Jim Crow era children at a young age have made their decision on what race or color they prefer. In the piece “The Eyes on the Prize, Civil Rights Reader” by Clayborne, Garrow, Gill, Harding, and Hine one psychologist Kenneth Clark took a focus group of children and gave them each a black and white doll. Mr. Clark asked: “Give me the doll you like to play with or like the best?”, “Give me the doll that is the nice one?”, “Give me the doll that looks bad?”, “Give me the doll that is a nice color?” (P.79-80). Their responses where shocking because the majority chose the white doll seeing that whites are superior in that time era. While in today’s modern society, racism still exists to the extent that small children have already chosen an answer o the questions above. The relative answer to the questions “Why?” was because “It’s White” or “It’s Black”. Many of the children say the white doll as good and the black doll as bad. In my life I have seen that children have preference to a toy not only because of the feature but because of their color. One time in my life I saw a person prefer or treat another child better because of skin color. These where not dolls but real children. I was shocked to see hat people who believe in equality still have the thought of segregation because of color. Thus tying into the quote “segregated but equal” from the doctrine used in Plessy v. Ferguson.
In the 14th amendment it suggests that citizens have equal protection. Yet many people are being separated by the fact that people have suggested in the past that they are segregated but equal. In the past people had equality but were segregated. In my personal perspective people where not really equal because even though they were given equal rights people had restriction to how they could use it and the majority of these restrictions where toward black people. In today’s society we still have “freedom” and are given “equality’ yet people have it that its definition now in time has lost its meaning. People have the freedom to do what they want but yet are restricted by laws. In the past black and white people’s actions where restricted by the law in order to contain it, in the image of what is morally correct. Then, throughout history as the laws have expanded people are beginning to have a sense of how much freedom and equality people actually have. MONEY!!!--> It is a big concept that applies how people are supposedly equal yet they do not have the money to pay for bail or to have the status that makes then equal to another person. Other people are not considered free because they are in jail or in captivity by their own status based on how much the world is in need of money. In the past and in today’s society people have been constantly excluded from the certain rights they have as citizens because of the lack of money which sometimes drives them to commit acts that “temporarily take” their freedom. In my experience my economic situation, unlike others before me, has been currently okay but when college comes that will change. Throughout the world many amendments and rights have been twisted in order to use it to ones advantage thus, it questions my view of what is “freedom” and what people consider is “equality”.
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