A lot of people these days and even before have gone through racial and gender oppression. Have you ever been underestimated because of your gender? You ever had any racist comments thrown at you because the color of your skin is different? Well let me reassure you, many of us have. So you're not alone! Just like in a book I've read, Kindred, slaves were oppressed because the color of their skin was different than everyone else. Black people were look down upon and underestimated. White people didn't think that they should be even counted as humans! "kindred" was a book about a woman, Dana, going back in the time around slavery. She had a connection to an ancestor and was basically trying to free the slaves on his plantation. But she ended up killing him in the end because she knew he'd just end up like his father, who ran the plantation at first and was a very cruel man. My point here though is to explain that racial and gender oppression is wrong.
So racial and gender oppression is wrong right? For example, this is very common among most women, a lot of men have thought about women in a way where they have more power and are capable of doing more things. Of course this is wrong, I mean I've seen a lot of women that are more mature than men and even physically stronger! "The rest of the patrol mounted and followed excepted for one who was having some kind of low-voiced discussion with the woman. Evidently the discussion didn't go the way the man wanted because before he rode off after the others, he punched the woman in the face..." You see, in this scene the patroler had basically been trying to rape the woman, but since she refused he decided then, to punch her in the face. He was trying to take advantage of her, to overpower her but since he didn't get what he wanted he hit her. And no man has no right to hit a woman just because he doesn't get what he wants. Just because you're a male, does not mean you have a certain amount of power over a women.
Many men think that just because they're men, that they should have more power than women. Though it's not ever true. Whatever happen to equality? "Free blacks had papers to prove they were free." Black people weren't "Free" until they had papers to prover that they were. While white people back then were just automatically "Free". This oppression caused slaves to have no education which was why they were overpowered so easily. No equality at all.
Even now, women in the media are showed as models, and are shown to act a certain way or be a certain way. And most girls internalize this which leads to them being overpowered. Not just by men, but also by what the media puts them as. The media is also racist, you don't see as much diversity on there. Equality, broken again.
The oppression towards people of different race and gender is wrong. We should all be equally human beings. We deserve equality among ourselves. This oppression still exists all over the world though, but we could transform this. Women out there shouldn't let people underestimate them, they should prove that they're capable of what men could do also. With people that come from different backgrounds, we need to clear those stereotypes and actually show people the truth about what your culture actually consists of then those people who made/make the racist comments toward you, they'll finally understand. Instead of them thinking that you're something you're not. Racial and gender oppression is a barrier to a lot of people's lives but we all could make differences in the world by pushing and dealing with it. "Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece." - Unknown
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