Incorporating Tolerance and Sensitivity toward the Ethnic Values - Essay Example

In Ms. Williams’ place, I would present situations in foreign countries that show the devastating results not only of racism but of counter-racism. More important than simply raising awareness about how racism has subsided nationwide is to show the damage caused when groups do exactly what the students are doing—coming together as a race to stand against, rather than unite with, another. I would show immediately the most basic case, which is how anti-Semitism developed in Nazi Germany as a result of a pro-white movement. This would illustrate how too much pride in one’s own race can devastate. I would go on to give them harsh realities of genocide. One example is the Armenian genocide committed by Turkey, where European people suffered at the hands of another race. I would also mention that blacks in Africa are not only the oppressed, as they were in 20th Century America, but also have been violently oppressive. 

In the end, this would give the students a dose of reality rather than idealism. It would be a warning that conflicts have no victors, and that racism divides can divide into even smaller grudges which can end not only in hurt but in shocking loss of human life. This would be a lesson for all, and it would end with a reminder of why America gives us the opportunity to live together—because our fathers and grandfathers managed to come to peace.