I've been deeply reflecting on the idea of disconnectedness between races after having a lively chat with Dr. Brooke Wagner in the sociology department, and thinking about how discrimination affects fun times you can have with other people.
To me, I can't figure out why this is an issue in our daily lives. Over the weekend, for example, I went on a choir retreat, and during arts and crafts time -- because choir kids are young at heart -- another soprano and I took stickers and went over to one of our friends in the bass section to decorate with him. He is an African American gentleman.
We didn't care that he was African American; we never even thought about it. All we did was celebrate our inner children as we laughed, broke out into random song, and played with our fellow choir member, and friend.
Wagner and I discussed earlier the sociological state of "false
consciousness," in which a person has difficulty relating to others of
different racial backgrounds because they perceive them as different
from themselves.
People are people, regardless of skin color. Other races aren't lesser beings because of their ancestry; they're humans, just like us. And disassociating one's self with another person because of their racial background makes you the lesser being.
Because making bookmarks and tiaras using markers and stickers with other human beings is fun. And your racial background shouldn't discriminate on the amount of fun you can have with your friends.
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