Racialism in My Community
Blacks on this side, whites on the other side and everybody else just fit somewhere in the middle. This has been my perceived interpretation of the small community I am apart of in Iowa. I have witnessed and been victimized by racialism in my city. Interactions between groups are very segregated in almost all aspects of the community. Your place in the community is already established before you are even recognized.
There is an array of ethnicity ranging from majorities to minorities. Those who are accepted within the community are the elitist, such as; doctors, lawyers and upscale business people. Leaders seem to appear when they are in need of a vote or when a racial incident happens and they need to be politically correct. These are a few of the examples I will attempt to lay out.
I have recently moved into a new loft in the downtown area of Davenport. This building is the first of its kind, launching a new outlook on the downtown area.......
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