The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression

Thinking about the personal side of bias and predjudice brings my mind back to the racial outbreak that happen in my small town community back in the 1980's. The reason for the outbreak has never really made any sense to me. It was because two races couldn't get along. We had many things to happen, alot of fights, alot of threats made to everyone and even extreme violence broke out. Yes, it was a white/black situation for whatever reason I still don't understand. I have never seen anyone as different because we are all in this world to live together. During this time I witnessed many harsh things being said among people and saw many violent acts among each other. I plainly remember the day we were called from our classroom to report to the office because our parents were picking us up due to a bomb threat that had been made among the school. Our community was on the news everytime you turned the tv on or picked up the newspaper. This racial outbreak lasted for a couple of weeks but did eventually die down. I forgot to mentioned yes, there were people that served jail time for the acts that were committed during this time. As the years have gone by the memeories still remain here in this communinty of this day but the way we live is together. It does seem like that day back in the 80's actually made us a stronger community who have come together and united as one. That is the way we are all suppose to be. As we all live in this world we are always going to have people or groups who pinpoint out certain things about people and who don't like the way they live or do things but we have to remember that we are all on this planent together as one. I hope and pray that one day we will all be living together in harmony instead of against each other.