"What you see, ain't what you get"
I chose these 6 words because we all "see" differently and have different perspectives based on what we are taught or grow up around, and that often is not an objective/accurate understanding, yet firmly believing they do and they are justified in these assumptions. Many people are probably guilty of judging someone else based on how they look or dress or speak (sometimes actions are also misread), and because they are different from us, we may not treat them fairly. I picked 'ain't' because (is not) would be too many words, and also some don't consider it proper English, which may lead to prejudice about them. It's also about assuming attributes to someone who may look a certain way, but not be a certain way As in the case of the movie Set It Off, and also with the recent Trayvon Martin case. These misconceptions create a gap between groups people, as they want to distance each other from other races. Race is a social construct as we are all one species. We're only judging the physical appearances and outward things and trying to find (and create) differences, when maybe instead we should try to focus on what we have in common.
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