Ordinary Human Mistakes… by Ana Boyzo period 6

I am not perfect. I have lived through many mistakes in my life to have definitely learned from them. Mistakes that have changed, and made my life better, but that have hurt others without an intent. Mistakes that I don’t regret because after all, I always learned something new due to those experiences. Luckily I was given the second chance not to commit the same error.
I know no one in this world is perfect but as I walk through this country, I still see people judging and pointing fingers as if they were. In many occasions it all starts as someone insults a person from a different race. As they do this they turn themselves into walking bombs waiting to go off, and when they do, the consequences can turn deadly. They have created their own war, using violence as their weapon.
As I was watching the news one evening I heard about a Latino immigrant that killed an African American. To everyone’s surprise this African American’s mom was fighting in the Iraq war while this incident took place. As every mother would be, she was deeply wounded. She later on proposed a law that required all immigrants to be sent back to their original country (as if it isn’t already happening). What this lady and other people don’t realize is that not all immigrants working in this country are criminals. The truth is that most of them are only here to work from day to night, to only obtain a better life. This Latino immigrant committed a crime and was not given a second chance, but still put a bad image on all other immigrants due to his mistake.
It is sometimes hard to make someone realize that just because someone from an ethnic group committed a crime, all other people in that same ethnic group would do the same thing. After all no matter what race we are, what ethnic background, what views we may have, or what mistakes we make, we are all human. Unfortunately not all humans see it that way.