Around Me

">Walking down the avenues and streets in Manhattan , Brooklyn , The Bronx or any of the 5 boroughs you would see blocks filled with multiculturalism with the many languages being spoken amongst one another and the cultures projected through our surroundings.But has anyone ever looked more closely? When I touched this topic of discrimination I never paid much attention to how racially divided my city really was until i started looking more CLOSELY. I started off looking at my neighborhood , my neighborhood is literally gated, it's a division of the "hood" and beach houses. The beach houses are located in Sea Gate, a gated community of rich Jews and Russian mafias and in the other side there is the "hood" with project buildings and some apartments and houses. Ironically the only people that live in the other side of Sea Gate are hispanics and African Americans and a sprinkle of Asians that own the strip of houses located on the avenues. You can also view a broader place such as the Bronx. In the Bronx the poorer communities such as the South bronx is rounded around African Americans and Hispanics where Riverdale is predominantly white.
  Believe it or not these are the signs of segregation round us.It should alarm us, if the system is so structured to divide us into regions because of our races imagine what it can do to make us hate each other. Recently it has happened with the title of Hispanics as "illegal" a type of word that will describe a criminal or a reckless intruder as an inferior of society as the America did in the time of segregation of African Americans with the word "negro" as inferiors. Could it be that we are living in the age where discrimination is allowed and we don't even know its occurring around us, let alone participating in it?

I mean we do it everyday, the stereotypical jokes as humor to others to get a laugh, but this can grow into discriminating remarks to be accepted. I admit I say things that are racist at times but I don't take the account of it to be demeaning to anyone but what I am actually saying could set in someone's mind that the stereotype is true and not a joke and they can start treating others differently by just the trigger of one remark that I considered a humor.This then creates an atmosphere where people are depicting each other solely on race and not of who they are as a person which then causes the stereotype .


But it could be a reaction to me as seeing what's around me ,division.