Algie Gatewood, who currently is a president of Cascade campus, gave us a chance to listen about his biography on Tuesday last week. We were amazed about his life time as a black boy struggling in the harsh life between black and white people at that time. I couldn’t understand the term “discrimination” until I heard these real stories from Algie Gatewood. The USA is ranked among the country where discrimination has been a controversial topic. My country, Vietnam, where people came from different ethnic groups live happily together. However, the discrimination still exists and takes very small place in our nation.
The USA, is famous about its multicultural society, where is the homeland of immigration from different part of the world. For a peaceful life of today, many heroes had spent their entire life to struggle for the civil rights, especially is black people. It’s difficult for black people to get along with white people at that time. As the result, black people worked as slaves in white families and were considered in the bottom of the society. According to Algie Gatewood, he had to work in the very young age for small amount of money a day in the cotton filed. Black and white people lived in different neighborhoods and had several public things divided. Black people couldn’t go to public restaurants; couldn’t travel around; couldn’t go to the beach for whites. In the past, schoolings were only the place for whites; however; Algie Gatewood had got the chance for being the first black student. He was proud but at the same time afraid of being hated of others. Education is supposed for everyone in order go get good knowledge; however; it was never true in the past. In other words, there were many limitations of rights for being black people.
Even though, discrimination is a small issue in my country, Vietnam, but described in different ways. Obviously, there