Racism
"Crime, Race and Denial and Columbine High"
"I want to be Miss America"
Summary:
In the columbine story people didn't believe what was going on because the children were white. There were two boys who set up to kill people just because they wanted to. When a black child entered that school they watched them like hawks because the school board thought that they were going to do something wrong. Tim wise states that its all white people who cause crimes and that white people are the real killers behind everything.
Julia Alvarez and her sisters would sit at home and watch the Miss America pageant on the television and only wish that one day one of their family members would have a chance to be on their. Coming from a Hispanic family they never thought they would have a chance. Plus the girls' mother would not let them wear different clothing, nor do anything to their body to get them to be pretty. So behind her back she they all shaved their legs. But in the end about 4 years down the line all the American Beauty pageant winners were dressing like they had when they were kids.
Why does the color of skin have such a large impact on the society?
In the world today when a person is other than the color white. They are treated in a completely different way or at least it seems like that. In the American Beauty Pageant story a girl named Julia believes that she can not become a beauty pageant winner due to the fact that she is Hispanic and all the other girls are white. In today's beauty pageants people are having one girl from each state in the contest to represent her state. So it is pretty obvious that it is a mixture of races throughout the contest. But why was it so different back then? In the columbine story when the African American students entered the school then heads would be turning in every direction they walked. But come to find out that the two white boys who drove BMW's where...
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