Race and Your Community

I’m from a small city that is called Sanford located in Florida and my community is very diverse with African Americans, White Americans, Hispanic Americans, Chinese Americans,and Japanese Americans. We typically do get alone, but there are some times issues that may accrue between the differences in how one culture raises their children. For example, we have a community park and one day I over heard a little white girl say to her mother that she didn’t want to play with that chocolate girl because she doesn’t look like me. This shouldn’t be how a five year old should be talking and she had to hear this kind of statement either from home or some where in our community.

There are many types of cultures in my community and some members in my community look like me because of our skin color and our ethnic back ground. Other ways that they look like me is that we wear the same clothes and shoes, and English is our first language. The other members in my community don’t look like me because their skin color is different and our ethnic back grounds are different. We some times dress alike, but our styles can be different. And English is their second choice of language.

Most of the time I get alone with all of the members in my community rather they are Black, White, Hispanic and etc. The only problem that I have sometimes is when one culture thinks that they are better than the other cultures because no one is better than the next and this isn’t how we should be teaching our younger generation. I really have a problem when leaders in my community don’t give each culture an equal opportunity because it’s not right. For example, I some times notice that a black male get pulled over by the polices more often than a white male which is a form of stereotyping that a black male is doing some thing illegal. Even though some police men can be in the wrong at times there is one leader that I can count on in my community which is Steven Harriet, Interim Chief of Police...