'Stereotypes: Sick of Stereo Hyped Stereotypes?' by Sullee J
Why do we suffer the consequences of an outcome that wasn't caused by us? Ignorance thrives. Why are we generalized into and placed under the same category as the individual who has committed acts of idiocy? Why are people so quick to believe what they don't know anything about? Why are we so easily absorbed into the belief that whatever the media depicts is accurate? Why do stereotypes exist? Do you ever think for yourself? Do you ever realize that misjudgment could be the cause of over half the tragedy in this world? Do you ever sit and think about the effect it could have on a person when you demean them because of their physical characteristics? What makes you think you can treat someone how ever you want because of what you saw on TV, the newspaper, or what your parents raised you to believe? What makes you think that just because of small amount of people filled with ignorance are creating chaos and atrocity, the rest of the people who "look like" them are the same? Is it because CNN told you? Did FOX or CBS tell you that an act of terrorism occurred today, and it was three Muslims, so now all Muslims are bad. Do you find it ok to hate all Muslims now because of those three? Can't you see with your eyes instead of listening to the poisonous lies they feed you? Are you that lazy that you'd rather just go with whatever is being said, instead of thinking about it rationally?
Stereotypes are defined to be generalizations, or assumptions that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image. Does that even sound right to you? I sit here and wonder each day, why we have to face the outcome of another's action that we had nothing to do with in the first place. I wonder why the media has made it so easy to just point fingers at a whole race, because of what a group of uncivilized, immoral, pessimistic, individuals have done. How is it moral or just, to discriminate and make the world believe false belief? Earlier this year, I was jogging around the block as a part of my daily exercise routine, wearing a vest which says "Gold's Gym,” and has about 20 pockets, full of 1lb weights inside each pocket. I was stopped in the neighborhood by a white man who stated he just got back from Iraq, and because I looked suspicious with a vest he had the right to search me. Are you serious? He said it was protocol, and that if they witness any body of my descent they are allowed to stop and search. Is this the reality we are living in? What is freedom, when stereotypes have people believing every brown person is a possible threat?
I am not saying every one is evil for being a victim of stereotyping because it is so common some of us don't realize it. All I am asking is to consider before you judge. Some folks may do it as jokes not believing it, but there are those who believe it. I am speaking of those who cause and wreak havoc with their words. At the end of the day, who's worse, the one who did the initial act of ignorance or the ones spreading the stereotypes? Think about who you are pointing fingers at, there are good people of each race, skin color, whatever it may be. The main point of this message is to make you see that not every bad person is a prime example of his race and not every good person is a prime example of his race. There is a mixed ratio, and we have no right to say how or who a person really is before getting to know them. Like they say, “it’s not about what you’ve heard it's about what you know!”
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