Black and White Pre-Reading Post

Have you ever heard the phrase, "don't judge a book by its cover?" Yet that's exactly what we do every day. The cold truth is that everybody is judged and everyone judges for different reasons from the way that people dress, look, or things they've head. One way that people are often judged or categorized is by the color of their skin. Their race their heritage, even though the color of our skin shouldn't be a big deal why is it? More importantly why does it divide nations?

In my life personally I haven't witnessed racial divide in my everyday life but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. In the mid 1900's there was a major racial divide against African Americans and White Americans. Nowadays it isn't as bad as it once was but that doesn't mean it doesn't still happen however nowadays it's mostly based off of history or silly stereotypes.

In the world there are many stereotypes against all races around the world. In life such harsh things and comments can hurtful and can even push nations apart.

The biggest racial division I know of and have seen is the presidential election of 2012. It is a historically known fact that the south was states for slavery, and had most segregation and riots during the era of the sixties those were the states that had the majority of Romney's votes while more northern states or neutral states had a majority of Obama's votes.

Even in foreign countries today in the Middle East there are many problems that deal with religion and racial divide every day. The fighting there is very violent and can be a very dangerous place for someone to live. They fight for simple things like gender, religion, and of course race.

Sometimes when I sit and wonder about the world and how far we've come but yet we still have to go really far and sometimes that makes me wonder how much has really changed in the world.