Racial Stereotypes Research Paper

Race is grouping people who share the same physical characteristics like skin, eye, and hair color. When dealing with race the focus tends to stick to skin color, being black or white. Race has come a long way over the years thankfully, but the concepts are still alive. I cannot believe the perception that follow being black now and days. I know the stereotypes I’ve heard them before, but this year the light really shined on the subject. People are waking up to the fact that even though slavery has been is over for years, black people still enslaved to stereotypes. Growing up in my skin has not been easy, but I am who I am today because I’ve learned to not let the stereotypes define me. I believe one’s race should not be tied to stereotypes
When we get together they sometimes use slangs/terms that I don’t know, and when I ask them to explain they say I won’t understand because I’m “white”. Even when we go shopping together the stores I like to shop at are “too white” for them. I never understood how not using slangs when I speak is because I want to be white, what does that mean? After they introduce me to a “new” slang I usually hear everyone using it no matter the skin color. I do use slang sometimes but the fact is everyone does here and there, it’s not something I keep up with because I don’t really hear them that often. Since when were stores categorized by race, I can shop wherever I want and I like. I tell them all the time, we won’t all have to like the same stuff but what I like does not make me any less “black” or any more
African Americans that the black community is generally offended with for betraying their roots usually for dating Caucasian girls, dressing too white, talking too white, etc. The term is branded OREO since they are "Black on the outside, White on the inside" So what I understand from this definition is that I am betraying my roots because I dress “white and talk “white”. I find this very offensive what is considered dressing “white” and talking “white”? Why do people associate “white” with being proper, intelligence, classy, and all these other positive attributes. Then associate “black” with being loud, hostile, indecent, and anything negative. Why does having skin mean I should act a certain way, and talk a certain way. Regardless of my skin color I shouldn’t have to change myself to fit societies perception of a “black” girl. I shouldn’t have to be defined by my skin tone, I shouldn’t be compared to a “white” girl. I shouldn’t have to sit here and think I’m worthless compared to a “white” girl and a “white” girl should not think she’s better than me because she is “white”. Who I am should instead be determined by my actions, attitude, and