On Friday, we addressed an extremely important subject: racism. At Bellarmine, we can say as much as we want about the diversity of our community, but at the end of the day, we do go to a private high school and we are privileged. Sometimes, when you are privileged, especially white men, you forget to take a step back and look at the different ethnicities of the other people around you and appreciate their culture.You just think about the false stereotypes that aren't even true. This continuous judging of people creates a constant separation between people. The question that comes to my mind, and makes me curious is, "Can we heal that separation? Or will it always be there, always lingering and depriving the people of the tight brotherhood we all crave?"
After we had this discussion, which I value and think is essential that teenage privileged boys understand, I started thinking. Has my generation of white people come to the conclusion that we don't need Blacks, we don't need Latinos, we don't need Asians. They think that they can be successful without those groups of people. This is completely and utterly sad to me because I believe in a world where everybody uses one another's strengths and weaknesses to accomplish common goals. A world where everybody has mutual respect and love for one another. Although, you proved in class that this world is only a dream, because of the way that the children of tomorrow are being raised.
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