An article from the Huffington post titled, "Don't feed the Race Trolls," attacks white's who hide behind social media in order to send hateful messages and comments to their fellow black neighbors. It calls those who are not racist not to feed the "race trolls". If you ask me, this person who is asking us not to "feed" those who categorize, is categorizing even now by banding themselves against those how are obviously uniformed, instead of trying to find a way to peacefully show them that we are supposed to be a community. It is absolutely amazing to me, how we are a nation and a community who claim to be banded together as one, however, cannot seem to get over the act of categorizing. Categorizing is for files, and libraries; not people.
As a nation and as a world, we have so much history, and somehow only the horror stories survive, and the worst part about it is we let it fester and bleed into 2015. I thought by now we would realize that if you treat others how you would like them to act, they are more likely to take on that role. If you have confidence in your neighbor to do the right thing, they will have more reason to do the right thing, if you treat your nations leader like a leader then they will do their best for you.
Beloved has many levels to it, however, it's commentary on race is unignorable. The struggle for equality is present today, but I believe that if we moved past the problems of yesterday and tried to understand that we are a community of humanity, that we might move past the current uprisings that seem to have attached themselves to everyday news. Reading Beloved provokes these thoughts, that hopefully we can find a way in which peace can be made.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/torraine-walker/dont-feed-the-race-trolls_1_b_7091716.html
"Don't Feed the Race Trolls"
Walker, Torraine
As a nation and as a world, we have so much history, and somehow only the horror stories survive, and the worst part about it is we let it fester and bleed into 2015. I thought by now we would realize that if you treat others how you would like them to act, they are more likely to take on that role. If you have confidence in your neighbor to do the right thing, they will have more reason to do the right thing, if you treat your nations leader like a leader then they will do their best for you.
Beloved has many levels to it, however, it's commentary on race is unignorable. The struggle for equality is present today, but I believe that if we moved past the problems of yesterday and tried to understand that we are a community of humanity, that we might move past the current uprisings that seem to have attached themselves to everyday news. Reading Beloved provokes these thoughts, that hopefully we can find a way in which peace can be made.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/torraine-walker/dont-feed-the-race-trolls_1_b_7091716.html
"Don't Feed the Race Trolls"
Walker, Torraine
What are some of the obstacles for being a community of one? Are there problems that can't be fixed by simply treating everyone more kindly?
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