Never Ending

Recently I was sucked into watching the entire original Planet of the Apes movies. In these movies it was a never ending battle between the earth being ruled by apes or by humans. The majority of the movies showed the earth, specifically humans there, being ruled by Apes. In every scenario, with either the apes or humans in dominance, one group would belittle the other by making each other slaves or targets of disposal. The nature of creatures is to be selfish and competitive, causing, in the case of humans, groups of people to always feel as if they must be on top at any costs. As for the essay of "Black Men in Public Space", it is a classic case of how the white people of that time period treated African-Americans like lesser individuals because of their strong desires to feel as though they were more superior then someone-else. It could be said that in the melting pot that we live in today, prejudice and competition is not as big an issue but that couldn’t be more wrong. Although prejudices and competition are not as exclusive to blacks and whites, it’s still present everywhere. For example, our whole society is built around sources of competition like the Olympics, singing shows, dancing shows, Grammy awards and etc that people will cheat, kill, or die to be a part of. Additionally, there are many stereotypes and prejudices that go with being of a specific ethnicity; like African-American’s as the “gangster killer” or “ghetto person”, Asian’s as “the super genius” or the person with unusual style as the “Druggy ”. All prejudices are wrong and distasteful: Competition is ruthless and cruel. Unfortunately, they are both unchangeable as well. As long as there are creatures on earth there will be prejudice and competition.