Discrimination-Personal Narrative Analysis
As a white male from a middle-class family with all the advantages that station in life affords, I have not often stood in the face of discrimination. On those grounds this essay was difficult for me to write. Growing up, I had an almost exclusively private school career, as some of you may have read in the Vidette last week. Before putting fingers to keyboard I sat down and thought a long while about a time when I was discriminated against. With both relief and some regret, I couldn't think of a single occasions. So after much thought, I decided to write about a time I had witnessed discrimination.
His name is Tony. We met him through our church. Tony was introduced to us as a handyman who could fix anything. He came to America as a …show more content…
Over the course of this week, it’s all I could think about. Trying to understand how Tony must have felt, I experienced every emotion from guilt to anger, and finally sadness. Through this exploration I also inferred that discrimination transcends race. It includes gender, age, appearance, sexual preference, and even opinion. (add this point (though obviously in your own words): we do it unconsciously all the time) I also learned that being denied something because you’re perceived as “different” has to be one of the most painful emotional experiences a human being could ever endure. Yet here we are. More than 50 years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his, “I Have A Dream,” speech; our society continues to struggle with the simple concept that all men are created equal. Make no mistake, this is not a uniquely American shortcoming. Some of the worst atrocities of our past and present have occurred in places outside of the United States. But regardless of where and regardless of when, discrimination is one of the biggest threats that face the human race. Eliminate discrimination and you achieve world peace and rewrite our future. (perhaps too much) But to do that, you have to make the very difficult and sometimes painful journey like the one I took this week; an introspective look at where you fall in that equation and what you can do about it. That journey may make you feel guilty. It may make you feel angry. It may make you feel sad. Good. That’s exactly where you need to start your journey. And the time is
His name is Tony. We met him through our church. Tony was introduced to us as a handyman who could fix anything. He came to America as a …show more content…
Over the course of this week, it’s all I could think about. Trying to understand how Tony must have felt, I experienced every emotion from guilt to anger, and finally sadness. Through this exploration I also inferred that discrimination transcends race. It includes gender, age, appearance, sexual preference, and even opinion. (add this point (though obviously in your own words): we do it unconsciously all the time) I also learned that being denied something because you’re perceived as “different” has to be one of the most painful emotional experiences a human being could ever endure. Yet here we are. More than 50 years after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his, “I Have A Dream,” speech; our society continues to struggle with the simple concept that all men are created equal. Make no mistake, this is not a uniquely American shortcoming. Some of the worst atrocities of our past and present have occurred in places outside of the United States. But regardless of where and regardless of when, discrimination is one of the biggest threats that face the human race. Eliminate discrimination and you achieve world peace and rewrite our future. (perhaps too much) But to do that, you have to make the very difficult and sometimes painful journey like the one I took this week; an introspective look at where you fall in that equation and what you can do about it. That journey may make you feel guilty. It may make you feel angry. It may make you feel sad. Good. That’s exactly where you need to start your journey. And the time is