Racism talk

This past week I had attended a talk about race. Race is something that, unfortunately, still affects our society today. There is an organization in which there are post cards sent out and participants will send them back with a story that they would like to share in a short six words. Some of the stories shared were; “Married a white girl. Now what?”, “No where are you actually from?”. The idea of these stories were to bring a voice to a silent topic. Racism is thought to be something that was abolished many years ago but the matter of the fact is that it still exists today and is still heavily prevalent. This relates to our class Leaders today are still judged by their skin color. There was an Italian man, Rudy Giuliani who was ranked first in his class at Columbia and wanted to run for presidency but was hesitant and ended up not running due to the color of his skin and his association with the mob. Although he was not affiliated with the mafia in any way at all, the fact that he was Italian made him automatically affiliated with that stigma negatively. The value of listening and coming to venues like these is to hear other peoples stories and what it is like to live in different skin.