2010: Minorities

Dear Friends,

As we embark into this month and as I embark into learning about what other minorities contributed, I am learning that people are unappreciative to these people. I have been watching the CNN’s special called Black in America and Latino in America. I attend a community college that has less than 1% minorities. Most of the minorities are coming from Toledo or points close to Detroit. According to a lot of studies, African Americas and Latino Americas will be the predominate minorities. There is an African American president and a Latino American Supreme Court justice. I find this funny because the lack of another minority: GLBT community. I bring this up because being African American is hard in this country. Being African America and a woman is harder. However, being African America, female and lesbian is biggest of hardships. I believe all races, sexes, and lifestyles should be equal. In Detroit, there is an openly gay male who is the president of city council.

I feel that we generalize things to make it simpler for others. We also feel hating someone or something easier than embracing it. One of my biggest observations is how can African Americans still a minority. I live in Detroit on and off for 30 years. From studies and other information, African Americans are dying left and right. Latinos does not kill another over trivial things like shoes or glasses. I feel like a minority regardless where I am at. As I learn more, I plan on educating others that unlike other African Americans who fit into a stereotypes.



Eugene Chandler III