brandonhelfer

I am an African American during current day America, and i feel that even though conditions have improved for my kind after slavery was abolished we are still being segregated against and mistreated. Everyday i see police chasing after my people for crimes that they didn't commit, we are just seen as the prime suspects. We have all been individually been trying to build our own wealths and many of us have gained enough to be considered middle class and even upper class. Will Smith is a good example of an upper class African American. Even though we are in equal classes with equal wealth, we still aren't treated with equal respect. I see these caucasians making jokes about African American's every day saying how we're like monkeys and we're always running from the police and it's not fair. I see hate crimes every day of both whites on blacks and blacks on whites and i feel that it's not fair. I feel that everyone was created equal, but i see that people are being unfairly treated just because of their racial background. Whenever I see an African American run out of a store i tell myself "please don't give them a reason to hate us more." We're even in the White house now, our president is Barrack Obama, but we still get miss treated with no respect. We do our best to show that we are equal, but there are some of us that just don't want to act like we're equal and they stick to these racial stereotypes and continue to steal from and hurt other people. I feel and hope that in the future, whether it's 5 years or 50 years, that we will all be able to live in piece, equality and harmony.