The Rambling's of a Thoughtful Student

"The floor of the white man's failures is the ceiling of the black man's expectation."

The quote is interesting and can be directly translated that the failures for a white person may very well be the best that a black person can reach. A racist short sighted concept that leaves out the idea that every individual has the power to reach their own level of thought, knowledge and the like. I hate people who judge others by color but sadly I cannot help but find myself doing so at times also. It's hard to not match one's actions and lifestyle to that of their ethnic origin. I remember the first time meeting my friend John and thought many things such as stoner, hippy, rich kid, stuck up, and obnoxious. Turned out that he was none of these things but after years of meeting people we begin to build stereotypes that make us develop these preconceptions of people. Color by default is how humans judge objects. We see color everywhere in every way both physically and mentally. Trees are green and brown. Green on top, brown on the bottom. It most definitely cannot be brown on top and green on the bottom or even red and blue. We tend to categorize things and leave them in their nice neat files ignoring the outliers that do exist. I cannot help but wonder why we do this, and if it really is bad that we do so. Everyone is proud of their own culture and the only way I believe that we can rid ourselves of these prejudice thoughts are to learn and love the cultures of others so that we no longer can judge others of their cultures for their cultures would be our own.