Segregation

A stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. For example, "All muslims are terrorists". Unfortuantley stereotypes bring races down and seperate races even further apart. Although my personal experiences aren't as bad as most people in the world, there are still stereotyoes for eveyone. For me i'm a white catholic boy, a well known stereotype is that white people don't know how to discipline their children. This makes me upset because my parents have disiplined me well, the same goes with my uncles and aunts with my cousins. Another stereotype that isn't true is that "all asians are good at math". An asain boy in my math class dropped out because it was too difficult for him. One stereotype that is true about me is that i can't dance, which i dont believe doesn't effect me because i don't plan on finding a career in dancing. 

     The american dream is thats every American has an equal opportunity to achieve success by working hard and putting in hard work. For many African Americans during the 1960s their dreams were "deferred". Which ment that they were not given the same respect and chance that the average white person got to pursue their dreams, and living the true American dream. The phrase "dream deferred" became known around 1955. It was not the same for white Americans and African Americans. African Americans did not believe in the American dream because for some it was not possible to achieve their dream. Their only chance for them to have a dream was to end the segergation laws and give them an opprotunity the same as white Americans have it.

     I agree with Mama's decision to buy a new house, but i do not agree with the family's decision to turn down the offer the neighborhood gave them. Walter's dream like many other african americans during this time was "to buy a house and have the money to put diamonds on my wifes neck."  They had an opprotunity to mak this dream come true, they would've had more money than what Walters father had left them, and they also had a chance to move out of an unwelcoming neighborhood and into a safer place. I would've liked to see how it could have turned out for them if they chose to take the money and move into a new home.