The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

The Memory I have about prejudice is watching the movie Roots. When I watch this movie as growing up I did not understand why the people were so mean to each other because of the color of their skin. I have watch this movie over and over again and I ask myself how could these people be so cruel to each other?  When my mother and father explain to me about this movie and how prejudice happen when my parents was growing up. I still could not understand why people were so mean and did not respect each other as people.  This movie disturb me I felt that everyone should be treated with respect and not looking at what color the person skin is look at the person as a human being and treat him or her in the way we as people would wanted to be treated. This help me as growing up to treat people nice and communicate with him or her no matter what race the person is. I look at people as human being like myself and I want to be treated with respect and not to be call out of my name with races words.  When I see people mistreat people because of their skin color it make me very unhappy I believe that no matter what the person is he or she should not be disrespected at all sometimes it is hard to not disrespect people when him or her disrespect you. In seeing this it makes me care about people more and try to communicate with him or her no matter what. Sometimes I have to pull away when people disrespect's me for being an African American Female.  My parents always told me to treat people with kindness and they will treat you with kindness. I really believe that until I work with different races and realize that people will not treat you the way you wanted to be treated you have to ignore the discrimination and prejudice sometimes. By studying my lesson it has help me to watch what I say to people and how I say it even when it is not to hurt their feelings. We as people should try to help each other and not offend because as a whole we need each other.