Sarah Nesbitt
Dallas, TX
I guess you could call this an epidemic of the current generation. Race is now often viewed as a factor to be manipulated, suppressed, and revealed at convenient times. Students are white as far back as they can remember, but the minute the CommonApp goes online, they feel the ache and tug of their deeply-rooted Native American ancestry. Undoubtedly, something has changed in the minds of the youth: race is no longer part of one’s identity but part of one’s glowing resume or shameful rap sheet, to be highlighted or hidden depending on the benefits of the situation. With such a distorted thinking process, whether subconscious or deliberate, how will we ever learn to think along the lines of equality — or rather, to unthink along the lines of inequality — for which we claim to strive?
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