Race

Today in class, we saw how the "Racial Test" works. It surprises me that everyone, including darker-skinned people, associate good with lighter skin and bad with darker skin. It is sad to me to think that we are brought up thinking this way. We are taught from such a young age that all light-skinned, blonde-haired, blue-eyed people are beautiful, when in reality, that is not necessarily true. Kids need to be raised with an open mind. They need to be allowed to form their own opinions of others, not be taught society's mostly-false stereotypes.
It really shocked me that even though I am not a racist person, I continued to associate the "bad" words with darker-skinned people and the "good" words with lighter skinned people. That shows me that no matter how much I don't want to be racist and don't agree with racial people and stereotypes, I subconsciously think that way.
When looking on the websites of different hate groups around the country, not only was is absurd to me that people are so insecure that they have to join and participate in hate groups, but it reminded me of a time I witnessed something that I did not believe truly still existed. The Neo-Nazi's. During sophomore year, I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Skokie Holocaust Museum opening. While we were on the bus back to our car, there was a group of Neo-Nazi's waving, shouting, protesting, and hating that there were so many Jewish people around. Some survivors that were on the bus started crying, remembering some of the most painful times of their lives.
It's sad that people have to create these awful feelings towards each other, when there is scientific proof that there is a tiny percentage of DNA that creates color of skin, eyes, hair, etc. that we perceive as race. No one seems to want to believe that we are all basically one race, HUMAN!