Its the beginning of 2017 and the racial stigmas are at an all time peak. In a country plagued with a not-so friendly history it seems that things really do get worse before they get better.

With the likes of Trump now ruling the country, it is only more evident that racial stigmas never die.

Thanks to most news media, whom I feel is most responsible for fueling the fire on this country's race war, it is easy to make assumptions about certain races.

Common stigmas include:

Young black men being looked at as thugs and as dangerous

White cops being looked at as black killers

Young whites being looked at as innocent and privileged

Young black females being looked at as ratchet and crazy

All of this needs to end.

In a country that was built on the idea of a "melting pot" there is too much focus on the differences, color. And too much worry put into "culture appropriation."

As long as we continue to feed into the stigmas that have been bred into the world, we will never be one as a people, as a country. The media has a way of brainwashing society into believing that one act of violence from a black man or one mistake from a cop will apply to everyone who seems to fit that category.

Its time to step up and make your own decisions. Get to know people for who they are, not who the media says they are. It is time to speak up about what you hear and see, spread the truth not the lies.

People are focused on Make America Great Again that they fail to realize that America was never great. America stole land. America had slaves. America had segregation. America had the Civil War. America did not let women vote. America started unnecessary wars killing many innocents. America bombed Hiroshima leaving them with life altering problems for generations to come. America had the Great Depression. America has $19,944,429,217,106.77 of debt.

Tell me again how great America was.

It is up to this generation and the ones to come to make the changes necessary to end the war on race and to end the racial stigmas.

It is time to Get Cultured.