I chose these six words because, as I said in class last Wednesday, the history of race and discrimination traces back to well before our times and has caused our modern society to be plagued with the numerous racial issues we find ourselves in. Although progressive thinkers are constantly agitating to move past all of our previous issues surrounding race, the fundamental facts that these issues ever arose and how much of our past conflict has revolved around them causes our culture to still be deeply involved with them. Regardless of whether an individual is racist or not, the mere fact that the concept of race exists divides us and keeps us from holding any prejudices. It is sad but true and the only way we can move past this is to acknowledge that these prejudices are stereotypes and are unfair and untrue and fight for them to die out. The more we realize how unrealistic race and its implications are, and the more we fight against the prejudices that arise with racism, the faster the lines will be blurred and the sooner racism will die out. It will surely take lots of effort and lots of time, but if we start now, the sooner it will be a reality.
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