At the beginning of this reading it talked about Rodney King. I knew about what had happened to him but had never seen the video. I jus happened to be watching a documnetary on him the other day and it was such an eye opener in the sense that words really could not justify the horrific beating he had endured. The worst part that they tried justifying they beat him because he tired getting up and attacking him. I just thought to myself that who would not try getting up to defend themselves. I did not know that much about it because it happened when I was only three years old. Rodney's quote "Why can't we all just get along?" I think it is so true that we all need to all just get along but will never be able to. There will always be someone who has more than you or have the life you always have wanted.
The part about what group we belong to bothers me a little. I know it mentioned that from birth we get put into groups and we do not have a say in what group we belong to and things have been this was for a very long time. I do agree with that we cannot help being born in to poverty, rich families, gay or lesbian parent, single or divorced parent. But, my overall issue is who gave the right to certain people to treat others how they want. There was a part that said stepping out of the box and being an individual made you different. What ever happened to being your own individual and not conforming to the social norms. I know my senior year in high school I ended up never having a set group of friends because I was the person that tried being friends with anyone and everyone. I know all groups of people did not like that because the felt I was either being fake and trying to play a cruel joke or simply because they did not like other people I would talk to. It hurt me for awhile but in the end I was happy that I did not just conform to one particular group of people.
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