Though there is less racism in today’s society, there still is some racism. This can be seen in the day to day occurrences between African Americans and Caucasian Americans. This is a small part of life as an African American, there is also a somewhat tainted history of stereotypes and slavery, and finally the fact that social media can be biased corrupting today's view of these people. It is clear to many people that today’s society is still racist.
It is clear that racism has not completely been destroyed, which means people can experience it in everyday situations. This can be shown in the case where an apartment manager asks an African American college student, Daniel, not to wear earphones while he strolled the halls. When Daniel was asked, he started to noticed Caucasian students wearing headphones and not having to remove them. This shows that the apartment manager seemed to have held the Caucasian American students over the African American students. This is one of many everyday racist acts. This makes living the life of a modern day African American hard, but so does the long history involved in being African American. I think that if I were to come from an African American background The long history between Caucasian Americans and African Americans affects people today. It is clear that these two groups of people have not treated one another fairly and some people may feel that it is up to the Caucasian Americans to continue making up for their mistakes and wrongdoings towards the African Americans. Some people would agree that living as an African American person in today's society would be difficult due to the long past between these two collectives. It is evident that the facts of the past may have been tarnished in a way. To me it would be hard to be an African American in today's society for this reason. It is often discussed what happened and why and it obviously is not something a lot of African Americans like to discuss, which is one reason why I would feel uncomfortable. This tarnished view of the past obviously makes it hard to live in today's society as an African American person.
It also is difficult to live in the world today as an African American due to the biased stories on social media. Lately people have been watching the Ferguson protests against the Michael Brown shooting. Many people would agree that the police shooting the African American teenager was wrong to do. This shows in the long protests being put on by the people of Ferguson BC. While these people think it was wrong, others agree that the Caucasian policeman was defending himself as he shot the teen. Though there is no clear right side, I would agree that there was no need for such violence towards Michael Brown. Many would say that this is an act of racism because had Michael Brown been Caucasian, perhaps the policeman would not have killed Michael Brown. Depending on what a person sees on the news, will determine how they feel on this case. It is not ensured that the social media will show the true story as whoever is writing must also think about themselves. Often people in the media will explore the ideology of the mass, and not usually go against the majority of people. This makes it so that people must take time to fully understand the situation and it's circumstances before choosing a side. It is clear that in a case like this, in modern day, an African American person would feel inessential as they have less of a voice. I think that being a part of this minority which was heavily slandered would be extremely difficult.
If my family were to have an African American background, I think it would be difficult. From day to day racism where a person can antagonize another person solely based on the colour of their skin, or to the long history which is somehow polluted. Also to the modern day media which shows only one side of every story. It is obvious that these manifestations can help a person with African American background to learn skills such as overlooking racism and handling other people’s displeasure with grace. There is always good to come from the bad, but it might not ever be equal to, or more.