My Fight With Generalization

Generalizing “All generalizations are bad including this one.” Said a wise man called Mark Twain. That quote has become so ignored, but so fundamental to this new generation. Now in the news we hear more common reports about racism, sexism, homophobes and many worse ways people generalize. These are some ways the world fights with generalizing, but I’m going to focus on a very more personal, constant, fight I have with generalization. I have been under the constant attack of generalization in the sense that I am a nerd, an illegal alien, and weak. Many people consider me a nerd because I go to the Clint Early College Academy. Just because I go to CECA people expect of me to know a huge amount of knowledge over all subjects, but that’s not always the case. I have friends from the high school in the same grade that usually come to me for help when it comes to school. When I happen to not know the answer they seem to get disappointed and usually say “But you are a nerd from CECA you should know this.” Comments like these do not make me furious it just makes me feel
My father got a scholarship to go to school in Little Rock, Arkansas, but at that time he already had three kids and a minimum salary paying job that did not suffice our everyday needs. With that said we literally arrived to Arkansas homeless. We lived in a car for a while. Luckily my father found a cheap apartment, but it was in “the hood.” Everybody that lived in those apartments were black people and us. Quite often you would see a car filled with white kids yell terrible thing to the black people. One day we were walking down the street when these white kids came with their car and started shouting evil things to us. Just because of our ethnicity. The human race should not be afraid of their roots because of some jerks with nice cars. I believe we should acknowledge that everybody is created equal despite race, gender, or