Discrimination

Discrimination Discrimination in America Discrimination in America is often overlooked. In the poem “Today Was a Bad Day Like TB,” I realized that American Indians are being discriminated against and stereotyped as someone their not. This poem makes me think of all the ways in which we as a society discriminate against the American Indians. Every day I see something that in some way discriminates against the American Indian. A big problem is professional sports teams with their logos and mascots, but there are also other things like television that really stereotype the American Indians. Actually, I’m not even going to call them American Indians anymore since they were here before America. Chrystos, in his poem “Today Was a Bad Day Like TB,” makes fair accusations and feels like he is being extremely discriminated against. “Saw young blond hippie boy with a red stone pipe/ My eyes burned him up/ He smiled This is a Sioux pipe he said from his sports car/ Yes I hiss I’m wondering how you got it/ indians, being, poem, people, against, indian, day, today, discriminated, american, red, realize, makes, just, ignorant, hippie, discrimination, chrystos, bad, america, way, think, things, tb, sports, society, make, i’ve, indians’, haida, going, feels, even, doesn’t, bright