My opinion on Race and Racism

A person’s race is determined by an individual’s skin, color, and country of origin. Normally it is very easy to determine a person’s race just by their outward appearance, a person of African descent can be dark skinned. There are many different shades of black , from the darkest lightest almost white looking, eye color can also vary from hazel, dark, green, and blue. There are many different characteristics to determine a person’s race. People are generally proud of their race no matter what because your race makes you who you are. It is also necessary for us to comingle together in order to better understand each other’s cultures when there are so many diverse cultures and subcultures in one area the chances of having turmoil becomes great. The worst is racism, because people are making judgment calls on an individual or a group simply by the color of their skin, or their country of origin. I was not aware of racism until I moved to the United Stated even during the time when I used to traveled to Canada maybe I was too young to understand what racism was, but I really didn’t know that is was that serious.
I grew up in a country that was predominately black even though I was aware of the different colors because of my mother’s side of the family where their skin were yellow and also due to the fact I started traveling at a young age; therefore I aware of the differences skin types.

When I was living in Haiti, the only difference was a person’s class in the society because Haiti is a class society where the highest class does not mingle together. The U.S. turned this around and make this about race and the inferior race was the African Americans who were denied any form of formal education because they were thought of a s less than Human and they were no more valuable than livestock, their lives were no more important , and they were being killed and persecuted for being black. It is a shame to see racism is a major concern in today’s society. From what I understood, in some part of this country black people are still not permitted. Till this day I still don’t get what is the big deal about our skin color because we all are god creatures and we do look alike.