Racism: affects my life on a daily bases because I am an African American woman and a single mother of one son.It also affects me when I apply for employment because I am a felony and have been to prison five times for theft stealing items out of department stores so it will be hard for individuals to trust me and my character. I have changed my life around and graduated in May 2010 with an Associate in Science. I feel that some of the individuals who work at Firelands are also racism, but probably because they were not raised around blacks. I remember when blacks were scared to ride through Huron because this was known as a racism town.
Prejudice: to me is when individuals have an opinion about a certain group of individuals, who they don't even know. It also comes from fear because of their culture. I took a sociology class here and shared my story with the people in my class everyone was crying because they never thought I had been to prison and would share my story.Later on in the class we were having a group discussion and a woman brought up my past because she hates people who commits crimes, after I told her everything I did was for my son she hug me and told me she was sorry, that's an example judging people you don't know. I feel we should not judge any one we don't know because we are not God. People prejudge you also by your appearances, religion, and sex, age and color of your skin.
Privileges:I have lost a lot of privileges in the United States because I was not a law abiding citizen and went to prison five times.I am still discrimination against because of my criminal record which will follow me the rest of my life. I am okay with that because I know today I am a changed person and a law abiding citizen. My first job I was given is here at the school as a note taker which I will start on August 23, 2110.
I feel that we still have all three issues in our school systems and our children and grandchildren will have to be subjected to this issues.As a community we can teach our youth that everyone is equal and everyone is a person regardless of their skin color and the area they live in.I n schools children get picked on because of their clothing, so Sandusky Schools last year had them wear uniforms, and the children still got tease because of their shoes, they are ignorance because of their home training.
I also feel that racism and prejudice is here to stay and as long as we still have racism and prejudice people in the world will continue to pat it down generate to generate.
