This weeks guiding question; What systematic expectations are placed upon people of color throughout United States history? How might these expectations still affect people of color today?
This week we read 2 stories by Langston Hughes, a social rights activist and poet, the one I will be talking about is called "One Friday Morning" and how it relates to our guiding question. In the story a young girl is denied a scholarship because she is black. The prejudices that people of color experience now are not usually as straight forward as the example in the story but even decades later people of color are facing the same prejudice roots in different ways. In a movie I watched with my school at the Napa Valley film festival it brought up a point I hadn't heard of before, our subconscious prejudices that seep into our everyday decisions. How we judge people based on a glance is often biased by race. In "One Friday Morning" she describes the American dream as it was stated in the pledge of allegiance, for liberty and justice for all. She and her teacher talk about how they will fight for equality for the next generation, we have these same discussions, we are the next generation of change. Just because racism isn't publicly accepted anymore doesn't mean there isn't more progress to be made. There is much work to do before our country is equal and completely undivided.
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