MLK+writing+prompt


 * __ MLK Writing Prompt __**

Discrimination and prejudice is a very touchy topic for almost anyone to talk about. For some reason, whenever this topic is brought up it cannot just simply be discussed. It more times than not ends up being an argument with yelling, screaming, and sometimes violence. It is because everyone has a very strong opinion on it and nobody wants to compromise. This was even truer back in Martin Luther King Jr.’s time, when racial prejudice always was accompanied by violence. Now a days we have come a long way in making everybody equal to one another. This has directly stemmed from the ideas and actions of Martin Luther King Jr. Almost everyone in today’s society is working diligently towards the equal rights of every man woman and child of the world. Right now in history, we are treading through unknown waters and trying to know everything there is to know about something that has never been done before. In doing this we have ignorantly stumbled into a great hypocrisy. This hypocrisy is something that not many people seem to notice. I call this hypocrisy anti-racist racism. What I mean by this is that in by being so concerned about not being racist towards anybody that isn’t white, we start giving him or her special treatment for various things due to the fact that they are not white. When we do things like this, we are still treating them differently than white people. We should be treating them as if there is absolutely nothing different between them and us. These kinds of actions show up everywhere in life as we know it. It more prominently shows up in today’s business world. Today’s businesses are forced to diversify, which in itself is a good idea; however, it is a bad idea in the long run. I am talking about how some businesses are forced to hire a certain number of every race in order to prove that they do not racially discriminate against minorities when filling positions. In doing this they have effectively become racists to show their anti-racial stance. Instead of filling job positions with the most qualified person for the job and not considering race into that choice at all, they have to check the ratio of whites to minorities and make sure that it is the correct number to fill their quota. If it is not at the correct ratio they must then factor in the race of the people applying for the position, and choose by what race satisfies minority to majority ratio. So this means there is a chance that a less qualified person could get the job instead of the person that worked hard and deserves to get the job. In the end there are always going to be groups and people throughout the world that are still racist. There is always going to be a problem with racial discrimination, because people are always going to have their own opinion about everything including race. Therefore there is always going to be an amount of people that are racist, and there are always going to be varying degrees of racist people. The only thing that I for see changing in this is the numbers of actual racist people dwindling but never quite diminishing. We will never be able to change that, but we can change the fact that minorities get special treatment and we can start treating them as if there is nothing different between them and us. This is going to be the only way to prevent racism as much as possible.

(Reviewed by Mrs. H - 10/27 -- Some minor changes made)