Das Racist

In class, we often talked about African Americans and their perseverance through the hard times of slavery and discrimination. Then we talked about women, who also suffered from being treated unequal. Throughout my entire time at school, the main focus are these two people that "suffered." I don't get why African Americans need to be talked about so much. Can't we think of other people that suffered? We do every once in a while put a variation like talking about Jews and Native Americans, but then we go back to African Americans. Everyone suffers in this world and we shouldn't just keep focusing on one group. I'm not saying to be like the history teacher and lie about all the conflicts in the past. What I want is a mixture of everyone from every race and background to be talked about. How bout them Asians? We suffered through stuff right?  Chinese people building railroads was pretty brutal, but all of that doesn't matter. What matters is the African Americans and their slavery thing. Or how they were discriminated throughout the cruel years. Why don't we ever talk about other people and their problems? Kids that suffer in the ghettos or people suffering from depression are rarely talked about. Maybe the reason there is so much racism is because that is all we talk about. When I was little, I knew nothing about racist stereotypes. It was only till I was older that I learned all this nonsense.