RACIAL PROBLEM vs. SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENCE

During my schools years, I was considered naïve and unrealistic by whites and blacks because I sustained that the racial problem in the world had disappeared or was disappearing and it was being replaced by social class differences. My experience living in Latin America, Europe, and United States and touring Africa confirmed that I was right. In fact, there are not any racial problems in the social circles of Latin America, between professional coworkers in Europe, among students in the United States, or Africa’s partying scenes. Nonetheless, there are serious difficulties to communicate among them, if they come from different social classes.

United States was built on racial violence in which the American Indians were almost exterminated and the blacks only survived because they were indispensable for constructing this country. Now our different racial communities are living in harmony and we are equal before the law. There is only one thing that we have yet to overcome that is the way the law is being imposed, given that the judges are more severe with spanish and blacks while rather lenient with whites. For instance, during this month two injustices occurred: some policemen were declared innocent after having killed a young black male whom had not committed any crime and was unarmed and defenseless; he received more that fifty gunshots. Another white policeman was declared innocent, after having killed two spanish persons while driving intoxicated. If these situations had been reversed, these individuals had probably been condemned to death.

Recapping, our American society, there are many Jews, Spanish, Asiatic and Arabic people whom through their hard work have gone from the lower class to the middle and some even have achieved to make it into the high class, materializing in this way the American dream. Struggling to survive, the lower class has unchained a silent antagonism among the different cultures giving the false impression of being a racial problem, especially between the spanish and black cultures. This antagonism between these two cultures and the fact that a racial problem does not exist in our country is clearly reflected in Obama Barack. The American population is supporting him not because he is black, but because he is part of a social class worthy of being president. While the spanish people are not supporting him mostly because of their believe that he represents the black community.

A more eloquent evidence that confirms the fact, object of this analysis, can be found in the natural way people of different cultures meet, socialize, fall in love and even get marry in the world. These couple has as common denominator, the fact that they come from the same social classes. Racial prejudice is a horrible monster that fortunately makes part of the past and in the exceptional case that it occurs is when is committed by a person who suffers serious personality disorder. The skin’s color is not significant anymore. It is sometimes mentioned to indicate physical attraction but not rejection. What it is now important is the person’s social, economic, intellectual and moral level.

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