How It Feels to be Colored Me

One thing I consider to be good about my color is that I am not too dark, but neither am I white. I consider myself fair skin, which helps a lot when I go out. I don’t get as many bad looks as many colored people.
I have gotten discriminated by my color, who hasn’t? Just because I am colored, even if it’s not dark, people see me as not capable of buying something expensive, they think we Mexicans are poor or something. Being colored me helps me “blend in” with my culture, and in cases it gives me opportunities others may not have. For example, colleges would want to have more Hispanics enrolled. Many jobs want bilingual workers, mostly ones that speak Spanish other than Chinese or Korean.
I hadn’t had a problem in school with race until I attended Schurr High School. Asians, Mexicans, and, people from Iran or someplace over there. That is when I started noticing the race problem. But not until this year, in Woesners class did I really look into it.

My America

I hear America is a land of opportunities; immigrants such as my parents have come because of that saying, in my opinion, I believe that saying is not true. I’ve seen that with both my parents and some family members. True they are immigrants, but why can’t they get a job? Is it because they are Mexican? Or because they do not speak English fluently? I believe everyone should have an opportunity to work. Langston Hughes mentioned in “My America” the things other people may do and he can’t, all of those mentioned also go to Mexican-Americans.
Even though I live in this country, and I was born in this country, I can say that I don’t really like it. In America we have a lot of discrimination, prejudice, hatred, corruption, and many races are made a minority, especially Mexican-Americans and African-Americans. When I watch the news, which to say the truth is rarely, there is always news of people doing bad things, which make American as a whole look bad. Even our president makes America look bad, I wouldn’t in detail about that because saying the bad truths about him is a bad thing in this country. What ever happened to freedom of speech?