Walking down the street, sitting on the bus, or even riding your scooter-- everything you do, everywhere you go, you see people of different origins. Millions and millions of people, in cities or towns, on streets or street corners, in buildings or vehicles, not one of them the same. Yet, we've learned to put them into groups, groups with similarities, one of which being race. Black, white, yellow, purple, green-- judging people by their skin tone, or acute features, its all a part of racial profiling. Throughout history, race has been a big issue, and a huge factor in internalized "ity's". These "ity's" being, internalized superiority and internalized inferiority, manifest in our culture, in this day and age, through history, privileges, and stereotypes.
There's more than one type of internalized superiority and inferiority. The type between black and white, but also they type between black and black (but I"m only going to be discussing black and white.) Internalized superiority and inferiority between black and white people started around the time of slavery. When race was a standard, and being black meant not even being human, a feeling was created, feelings of superiority and inferiority. Because blacks were treated as animals and whites were their owners, blacks felt inferior. Because of this whites felt superior. Yet, as slavery diminished, the same feelings were established into our culture, and to this day, are still in it. But now, for the most part, they"re internalized. It shows in statistics, in stores, in movies, anywhere you look, if you look hard you can see it. On TV, daily, on the news I hear about another black youth who has robbed a store, daily I see the show COPS which shows another black man getting arrested for drug dealing. Since I was little, when I walk into a store I've been followed. Even in school, look at the minority based neighborhoods, and the schools they have; look at the statistics from that school, and look at the schools overall construction.
