I woke up one morning to police officers casing my house because a few teenagers had written the “n” word and a swastika in blood on my garage door overnight. Not only was this disturbing, but it also made me feel ashamed of my skin color.

The recent increase of negative racial comments I’ve seen on Facebook, including “Act your own race,” “Stop trying to act black” and “ You’re so white” have made others feel ashamed of their race. The fact that society continues to see people as being inferior or different because of their race almost 50 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed is wrong. People can’t control what race they are born into so society should be accepting of every race.

Caucasian, African American, Asian, Hispanic or Native American, it doesn’t matter what your race is because in the end we are all part of the human race. It’s time that we all look at each race as being equal. Before we speak or post a comment on social media we need to think about if what we are saying could be potentially harmful to others.