Carousel Observation
Race surrounds us and circles us like a carousel. We all hop onto the ride of life and watch the various animals gravitate upwards and downwards. Kids will be screaming, but somehow the music can drown them out. As the music slows, so does the ride and then it is done. Adults flock to their children, and they all leave.
The carousel is probably one of the best analogies that I can think of when I observe race. You have the ride itself representing life as we know it, fast pace and constantly moving forward. The animals represent the various environments, each one is specially handpicked by the individual or child in this case. The music playing is the surrounding influence of the environment infiltrating our minds. The older we get, the
more likely we are to tune out the ‘music,’ and more we have to pass on. We all hopefully have someone there to eventually ‘pick us up’ and listen to ourselves.
In this day and age, the main issue regarding race today is the inherently racially bias mentalities that are created from our environments, our society, and our previous generations. This influence that the carousel of race has entailed, has poisoned the minds of our future and present generations. It has created a socialistic divide by categorizing ourselves on a basis of skin pigmentation, a ‘cultural’ influence that cannot seem to be infiltrated, and also by denouncing the laws by defiance.
We have created our own misfortunes by the simple closed minded. This poison is being fed off of sheer laziness to educate oneself and a wild man’s call for a cause. It has created a destruction that will rain down upon itself until the end of time. The crumbling begun with no respect for the law or the governing system the regulates society. It had progressed to the school’s system teaching the generations that there is only one answer the opinion based discussion, a simple mind one, and if an answer isn’t matched, then more havoc will be stricken on those that disagree. And then it had gravitated towards the legitimate destruction of property with no regulation from the system that governed.
It is this recipe we have formulated as a society, that has created a huge cultural divide. It is seen in the smaller and less perceived encounters of our life, and gradually has grown to this magnitudinous scale we are seeing today. It’s not only concerning, on how this issue is addressed but also how the issue is represented. This class has definitely widened my perspective on analyzing this restlessness.
The carousel is probably one of the best analogies that I can think of when I observe race. You have the ride itself representing life as we know it, fast pace and constantly moving forward. The animals represent the various environments, each one is specially handpicked by the individual or child in this case. The music playing is the surrounding influence of the environment infiltrating our minds. The older we get, the
more likely we are to tune out the ‘music,’ and more we have to pass on. We all hopefully have someone there to eventually ‘pick us up’ and listen to ourselves.
In this day and age, the main issue regarding race today is the inherently racially bias mentalities that are created from our environments, our society, and our previous generations. This influence that the carousel of race has entailed, has poisoned the minds of our future and present generations. It has created a socialistic divide by categorizing ourselves on a basis of skin pigmentation, a ‘cultural’ influence that cannot seem to be infiltrated, and also by denouncing the laws by defiance.
We have created our own misfortunes by the simple closed minded. This poison is being fed off of sheer laziness to educate oneself and a wild man’s call for a cause. It has created a destruction that will rain down upon itself until the end of time. The crumbling begun with no respect for the law or the governing system the regulates society. It had progressed to the school’s system teaching the generations that there is only one answer the opinion based discussion, a simple mind one, and if an answer isn’t matched, then more havoc will be stricken on those that disagree. And then it had gravitated towards the legitimate destruction of property with no regulation from the system that governed.
It is this recipe we have formulated as a society, that has created a huge cultural divide. It is seen in the smaller and less perceived encounters of our life, and gradually has grown to this magnitudinous scale we are seeing today. It’s not only concerning, on how this issue is addressed but also how the issue is represented. This class has definitely widened my perspective on analyzing this restlessness.