Social Issues of the Day

Social Issues of the DayEvery social issue faces the same problem - they are all very different, so as an artist trying to paint a picture with it, it's almost impossible. At this point I would like to present you with a short 'tutorial' on some of the most common social issues that we have in the United States today.Unfortunately, one of the issues that is often used to show the world how far people will go in their quest for human rights is the topic of racism. However, I am here to tell you that the issue of racism in America is not nearly as important as you may think. In fact, it's a little bit more important than you think.Racial differences can be very small. In the United States, there are only about 2 million people that are black and about 10 million people that are white. However, the average is close to two hundred and thirty million Americans. That means that the racial groups are spread out over two hundred and sixty million Americans.The majority of people that are act ive in society today are politically correct and therefore refuse to acknowledge any real issues with racism. This is unfortunate, because it is the biggest social problem in America. Most of these people make very sound arguments against racism, but when it comes to actual examples, they are completely missing the point. There are almost no statistics in the United States regarding what the percentage of violent crimes committed by people of a certain race is.Really, any statistics that were gathered would be very lopsided, since there are so many different races that live in the United States. The only way that anyone can figure out how much crime is committed by certain groups of people is by putting together the data from different communities, then assigning a percentage of violent crimes that are committed by a certain group of people.Really, if we were to do that, we would end up with nothing. Statistics are so incredibly hard to collect. The reason that most of them are so l opsided is because of the lack of oversight. There are probably hundreds of different independent statistics agencies that collect these things, and none of them all have the ability to gather such high quality information.As an artist, I believe that you have a responsibility to present the truth as well as you can, and that includes some of the current social issues in the United States. Racism does not have to be the 'headline' issue, and the news doesn't have to tell you that every other person in the country is a racist.