Prejudice And Racism In Oviedo High School

I have always felt like there is another sense that most people have inside their bodies that tells them about how a person’s personality trait is without knowing them. An urban nickname that many females may refer to it as women’s intuition or everyone else could just commonly call it judgment. I believe that I’ve grown accustom to may be telling what is really inside of a person’s mind and how they may feel towards me. For example, racism is a topic that most people tend to avoid during a conversation because they would not want to offend anyone. Racism is a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is…show more content…
I attended Oviedo High School in Oviedo, Florida and the kind of people who go to that school are white people, with the majority of them “rednecks”. Mainly the people who treated me different was white people whether it was some other students and/or teachers, all of them were white. For example, in an English class in high school, which I was the only African American in the class, we had a test and I earned a perfect score on the test. Then when it came time for us to get the grades and test back my teacher told me to stay after class. Next I waited until class was over and my teacher asked me a series of questions mainly the difficult questions. I responded with the same answers I did on the test and they all were correct. Last she gave me my test back and told me very bluntly “Good Job.” When I got home I pondered in my mind what had happened and I realized that I was a victim of racial profiling, which is a part of racism. In addition to that, I realized that I wondered why the “rednecks” my age had a certain amount of hatred towards after towards African Americans. According to an article I had read by Ph.D. Monica Williams, “Some white people have some sort of hatred towards another race such as African Americans because that is what they may have been taught throughout their childhood while growing…show more content…
The personal experiences that I have endured throughout high school, college and personal experiences have led me to argue the fact as an African American man that racism still exist to this present time period. Therefore if racism is bought up in a conversation and someone tries to argue that racism is non-existent, the three topics I have discussed are some of the many claims that racism still exist today.

Works Cited
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Hahn, Steven. “Political Racism in the Age of Obama.” The New York Times: Sunday Review. 10 Nov. 2012. Web. 5 Feb. 2013.
“Racism.” Collins English Dictionary-Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. 05 Feb. 2013. <Dictionary.com