Minority Stereotypes: A Harmful Reality

When it comes to the topic of stereotypes, most of us will readily agree that Minority are treated crudely because of stereotypes. Someone might stereotype another person to maintain a certain idea of a minority. stereotypes are usually characterize a minority groups by color or language. There are also many stereotypes like, gender, racial, and mental stereotypes. But, Some people believe that stereotypes don't harm minorities in any way. This agreement usually never ends because, there is always the question how are do stereotypes treat minority crudely? This question will always be controversial. Although that some people argue minorities are not treated differently because of stereotypes, stereotypes affect minorities through constant

hate,crimes against humanity, immigration, threats, and an negative outlook.
Minorities are not treated differently because of stereotypes, stereotypes affect minorities through threats from other minorities. Warriors Don’t Cry is a book how nine black teens had to go through a brutal integration in Little rock. One of the black teens wrote Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba Beals. Melba tells her side of story and what it was like to not just be stereotyped by to be emotionally and physically harassed and threatened. Melba stated in her novel that she “wanted to turn and run away,but I thought about Danny had said: “warriors survive”(Warriors Don’t Cry,pg 118). The little rock nine were so stereotyped through threats, that Melba had to find a way to survive because integration had a big affect on her. White people at Central high stereotyped colored people to be bad people and unstrong, but they are strong. If Melba would have ran, she would of proved white people were right. Melba started to see the stereotype that the white people were setting “I was beginning to resign myself to the fact that white people were definitely in charge….”(Warriors Don’t Cry,pg 10). White people and colored people used to have a stereotype that white people were in charge and colored people would listen and go through the threats that white people said. I think it was so hard for Little Rock to integrate because of the way that other people would copy other people and do the same thing as them. Stereotypes are not just affected minorities through just threats, also by a negative outlook.
Minorities are not treated differently because of stereotypes, stereotypes affect minorities by giving them a negative outlook. The poem “I Too” by Langston Hughes wrote about feeling patriotic, but not having a lot of freedom. The poem “Holocaust” by Barbara Sonek wrote from a Jewish child view on their thoughts and feelings. These poems have one thing in common, they give off a stereotype that a dark-skinned or Jewish person have to be like. Barbara Sonek wrote “We were going to be doctors,lawyers, rabbis,wives, teachers, and mothers…” (“Holocaust”, lines 7-8). This shows attitudes on what it means to be Jewish, like the jewish mother, or the nice jewish boy or girl. Many of these Jewish stereotypes are old stereotypes that put a negative or certain outlook on what a jewish person has to act like, this affecting the minority. Hughes wrote “They’ll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed- I, too, am America” (“I Too”, line 16-18). Dark skinned people used to do what white people ordered;making them not have much freedom, thus explained by Hughes.Now in the modern world this can give dark skinned people a negative outlook because of what white people did to them. This giving a person from making false accusations before meeting him or her. Stereotypes are not just affected minorities through just threats a negative outlook, but also through immigration.
Minorities are not treated differently because of stereotypes, stereotypes affect minorities through immigration. The “1963 and 2011” political cartoon by Khalil Bendib is showing a comparison then vs. now public education laws. Bendib reference back to the Jim Crow laws. In the cartoon it has a sign on the door in the 1963 that says “Whites Only” (“political cartoon” by Khalil Bendib). This shows how the Alabama immigration law stopping darked skinned people from getting an education. This showing how immigration stereotypes affected minorities from getting an education that everyone should get. In the cartoon it has a sign on the door in the 2011 that says “No Latinos” (“political cartoon” by Khalil Bendib). This cartoon says a lot, but it shows how framing the Alabama immigration law to look like the state doing the samething to Latinos. There is also a bird in the cartoon that is making a point that America is doing the samething that America did to the blacks. Aka history is repeating itself. Stereotypes are not just affected minorities through just threats a negative outlook, immigration, but also through crimes against humanity.
Minorities are not treated differently because of stereotypes, stereotypes affect minorities through crimes against humanity. “The Children’s March” tells a story of how and old people of Birmingham went through crimes against humanity. In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama was the realm of the Civil Rights Movement. “The Children's March” by Teaching Tolerance on the question sheet it says “What might a white tank symbolize to white people/black people” (The Children’s March question sheet). White people used white tanks to scare the black people making them know they had no freedom. Black minorities were stereotyped as people to be scared of white people, thus affecting them through crimes against humanity. In the film it says to “meet violence with nonviolence” (“The Children’s March”). White cops would hose down darked skinned people and they would dance in the water. This crime against humanity hurt and stereotyped darked skinned minorities to be strong , which affected them in the long run. Stereotypes are not just affected minorities through just threats a negative outlook, immigration, crimes against humanity, but also through constant hate.
Minorities are not treated differently because of stereotypes, stereotypes affect minorities through constant hate.

The article “Student immigrants stage a risky protest at U.S.-Mexico border” by Cindy Carcamo and “Chaos reigns as Trump’s travel ban sparks backlash of protests, confusion” by Laura King, Barbara Demick, and James Queally are all articles that answer the question Should the United States allow immigrants and refugees to enter the country when everyone around the world is concerned about safety and security? Some people have a stereotype that immigrants and refugees are dangerous to American citizens. Cindy Carcamo said “Statistics show deportations went up from...300,000 in 2007 to..400,000 in 2011” (document A, “Chaos reigns as Trump’s travel ban sparks backlash of protests, confusion”). Immigrants come to the USA to get a better education. These Immigrants stereotypes that everyone hears affects their everyday life, from the constant hate they get from people they don’t even know. Laura King, Barbara Demick, and James Queally said “citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations...all of whom were carrying valid entry documents…” (document D, “Student immigrants stage a risky protest at U.S.-Mexico border” ). Immigrants are Categorized into many thing; mostly bad. They are seen as people that shouldn’t come into the USA or people that might hurt other people. But, they are not like that at all. They are all just regular people like us but, they just want to come to the USA to have freedom. Stereotypes have affected minorities through threats, a negative outlook, immigration, crimes against humanity, and through constant

hate.
Stereotypes are apart of everyone’s daily lives. Constant hate, crimes against humanity, immigration, threats, and a negative outlook are all ways minorities are affected by stereotypes. All of these effects all are impacted by how the person acts and handle the situation. For example when a person is affected by stereotypes through a negative outlook, they still have to deal and subsist of the situation. This might affect the person by also self-stereotyping. By believing certain stereotypes is one thing, but by starting them and spreading them around is another. Watching movies or t.v. shows with stereotypes, stopping someone from making a comment about someone's race, are some ways America can start to end stereotyping. Stereotyping is a deadly weapon that needs to be call to action.