Not everyone is created equal. This is the sad truth of our society. People are judged by who they are, and when they don't reach people’s standards they get mad for being unable to control others, as if they were porcelain dolls. Everyone can't be who they want because people have closed minds when it comes to the nature of human society and the thought of having a free opinion was beyond okay. A place where people only see white and black, no in between. 

Nothing changes. The world doesn’t stop spinning, people continue with their lives, and the news continues with their heartbreaking stories. The world isn’t a perfect place. Problems that have been around for centuries are discrimination and racism. These are topics that I’m connected to because my parents are immigrants from Mexico, my mother is from the capital, my father from Michoacan, and the fact that many other immigrants aren’t wanted here. These people are treated as outcasts of society. People with rights think that they are correct when the news says something bad about a racial group. Fake news is a thing. Many say that this is “the land of the opportunities”, whereas I see it as a biased place, and it shows within the treatment of others. Discrimination. A word created because people don't have human decency, where they judge people based on their persona. Racism, a word created because people think there is only one “right” race, white race, this is where people judge others upon their race, ethnicity, culture, language, and more.

Last year during my last class of the day, Avid, everything was normal, or so I thought. Everyone was doing class work so my friend and I began to talk, and the thing we have in common with each other is our ethnicity. We both have Spanish as our first language. Nothing wrong there, right? Wrong. The girl sitting next to me was a bit complicated, she seemed ignorant to what was going on in class and didn’t seem to take anything seriously. Eventually, at some point in our conversation which was in Spanish, she jumped in and said “what are you guys talking about?”. 

At first, I didn’t see anything wrong with it since it was out in the open and it wasn’t important, so we just told her to not worry about it. The next thing she said made me freeze in place as if ice-cold water got dumped on me, to make sure I heard her right I turned to my friend who had her eyes wide open, her mouth open with shock. The girl next to me said it as if it was a normal thing and that made me furious. “You should be speaking English, it’s America,” she said. I looked at her with disbelief, I didn’t know what to feel or say, I snapped out of my thoughts as my friend started to speak. “What does that have to do with the language we're speaking?”,  “It's our first language, we can speak it,” said my friend. I agreed with her, and the most ironic thing I can see with this is that the girl next to me, she speaks Russian, and she speaks it in class. I don't have a problem with it, so I don't understand why we can’t speak our language.

This is the problem. People don’t see things from others' perspectives. Some people think they are more superior than others and that makes me crestfallen. Many families that are immigrants or simply are different suffer because this society is blind. I would try to help by spreading awareness on this subject, start off small like a documentary and then continue making a bigger project like a protest. People aren't created equal. This is the society we live in, where black and white dominate, only to hope people will see grey.