The Lesson

I feel like "The lesson" which we read a couple nights ago for homework really characterized and put into words how much of a two way street treating people of a different ethnicity or race is. In the story everything is narrated by a young African American girl who lives in a low income neighborhood with a poor community and her view on white people is a generalization or stereotype that all white people are rich, snobby, very educated, and buy really extravagant expensive things, like sail boats, just because they can. EVEN THOUGH she has a teacher that comes and proves her otherwise through her kindness, accepting nature, and home being in the very same neighborhood with a low income job and she can’t afford anything she want, she still feels the same way about white people in the end. So it goes to show that unfair treatment of specific social groups, ethnicity’s, and race’s can be a two way street and that maybe we should all, as an international community, maybe start contemplating how our own actions and perceiving people can also create an adverse effect and create the exact same situation for us that we put others in.