Race and Community

Running Head: Race and Your Community

Race and Your Community

Azinna Kimball

Axia College

Instructor: Vicki Dickenson

Race and Your Community

I live in a community in which people are good, bad, and so much more. I live on Travis Air Force Base in California. I serve in the United States Air Force and I love every minute I serve. I have a view on diversity and ethnicity which comes from different views. I live in such a big community from customs, religions, traditions, and social events. One of the best aspects on Travis Air Force Base is that I can live with so many minorities and ethnicities that people don’t care about whose skin color belongs with which minority. We all care about one thing. That is in which were all fighting for FREEDOM.

Looking at my community, yes members look like me. I live and work on an Air force base so; I live around all different types of people. I work and live around many minorities. How we all look the same is by work ethnicity. We all work for the same thing every day we wake up. We go to work to fight for our freedom and for others freedom. We fight for the same blood. When I work with my coworkers, I don’t look at how were different but how were the same in sister and brother hood. How we look different in ethnicity we all either have the same skin color or we don’t. We are; Caucasian, Black, Latino, Pilipino, and so much more. None of us have the same looks we all have our own characteristic.

Looking at the leaders, we live in a community where it is by rank. The leaders are people higher ranking by the stripes on their sleeves or the officers who have worked very hard to achieve the rank they have. One leader who is widely remembered by Travis Air Force Base is named after Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, who was killed in a B-29 crash at the installation on 5 August 1950. At the time of his death, the general was commander of the 9th Heavy Bombardment Wing and was the base's commanding general....