(H) 360-386 Page, Showing my Color

Racism has been an impactful and controversial topic around the word for many centuries. It has lead to wars, divisions, and catastrophes all around. Racism has impacted society in a way of perspective. Although in todays times, society is more accepting of people of color, years back it wasn’t the case. Many whites way of thought was that they could do anything without question. Whether it stretched from going into a a shopping center to using a bathroom. On the other hand, Black people had it more difficult and had very limited options. Their perspective was that they were unwanted, hated, whites had all the luxuries, and they were simply viewed as trash. Because they both came from different origins, their perspective comes to differ greatly. Whites had no struggle in their lives other than maybe financially, where as Blacks constantly had to be on their toes and behave properly to simply be somewhat accepted. Society had created these standards on the falsehood that everyone was equal and forced other to follow their rules. Because whites designated themselves as superior they followed the principle of power and made others inferior for them to rule over. In this dynamic, Whites felt like they created a balance of power, when in reality they simply followed the foundation in which America was built on. In the coming of Christopher Columbus into the New World, they took over indigenous people by force and marked their falsely claim territory. This proves true in the way whites claimed their dominance over people who were told they were of equal value in America. This shows how the discrimination stems from a long point of view that whites are supposed to be dominant over everyone else. This unfair view has brought years of trauma to many people who peacefully coexist now but at the time had to fight to survive.