Growing up in a small rural farming community, I was never really exposed to the African-American culture until my later years of high school. The lone black guy in my high school was raised in a white household so he acted like the rest of us. So I never really had to worry about crossing the color barrier until I got down to Lincoln for college. I was never too worried about making friends with a black person, as I really don’t think that they are all that different from me. But as I visit with people around campus at times, I have found that not everyone is appreciative of the black community. The first part of this article talks about how we, the white people, need to show empathy to the black community so that we could eventually cross that color barrier. I don’t really think that it is just that easy though, because the black people are still being discriminated upon and so there is no way that I could relate to that. I think that the best way to eventually get to a point where there is no color barrier is to just to become color blind. I think then if you can become good friends with a person of a different race then they would be willing to talk to you about your cultural differences. I just don’t think that when visiting with someone that you don’t know, that they would be open to their view about the color barrier.
Even though slavery ended almost 150 years ago, why are we still not to a point where whites and blacks can be seen by something other than color?
Will we ever get to a point where people are able to view other races without being judgmental?
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