When An Idealist Writes About Racism / Stereotypes

Hannah Mecum Mrs. Gallos English 3 Honors 18th April, 2016 When an Idealist Writes About Racism/ Stereotypes A young woman is walking alone on her way back from a long night shift and she passes an ally. There’s an old, huddled dark skinned old timer plopped in the ominous mouth of the allway and this woman (who was raised to have common sense) clutches her purse and refuses to look in the twinkling man’s eyes. She also refuses to acknowledge him when he calls in a sickly tired voice, â€Å"Have a blessed evening.† She just drones on thinking of the terrible things that the old â€Å"Gangster† could’ve have done to her. On her last block the young woman found a pale stranger plopped on the corner of her apartment building, he had a cup filled of change and a hat covering his eyes. He pushed the cup towards her and her stomach filled with automatic sympathy and disdain that a poor starving artist was in front of her building. The pale stranger received a five dollar bill, a blessing, and her before bed prayers. Now, this was a hypothetical occurrence was ma de by something we’ve seen too many times. Racism and these stereotypes will never die until races and our stereotypes die. People are still going to what they think they know instead of branching out to all the possibilities in the people around them. The outer shells of other people are the warning signs to other people opposite of the social spectrum of society to not even try to have any connection with them, yet folksShow MoreRelatedBeowulf : A Pattern And Traditional Form Of Heroism1023 Words   |  5 Pagesperson, then was performed in mead halls by poets and gleemen before it was ever transcribed. While the hero in Beowulf was celebrated for his valor, he was also praised for his humility. He did not give in to the corruption and refused the kingship when it was offered to him. Anglo-Saxons were ruled by chieftains who thrived on maintaining their stature with tales of their acts of war. It was as important that the chieftain share the spoils of war, as it was for hi m to be victorious among his thanesRead MoreThe White Race And Its Heroes1623 Words   |  7 Pagesin the civil rights movement during the 1960s and early 1970s. Cleaver spent a majority of his upbringing in youth reform schools and prisons within the state of California, which as evidence will show, affected greatly upon his work Souls on Ice. When Cleaver was serving his time in prison he was influenced greatly by a copy of The Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto alongside the works of Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Stanley Baldwin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire; all