As a student at Florida Gulf Coast University, I am part of a university including over 15,000 other students and young adults just like me. In-state, out-of-state, commuter, off-campus, black, white, homosexual, brown, purple, Hispanic, German, tall, skinny and all others not included because it serves as an act of repetition, we are all a community. We have all come together from all different walks of life to get an education and further our time on this planet with the aid of a very expensive degree and a job that said degree somehow magically unlocks.

No matter our differences in background, race, or religion we have two things in common.

1. We are all equal human beings.

2. We all just want to FUCKING GRADUATE.

After attending college for three years, I have grown very fond and have a lot of respect for what my university stands for. With a very open-minded mentality, good student relations, and great ecological features, I loved the college and its defining qualities. Yet, I was a little disheartened upon learning that starting next semester my school would start offering a white racism class.

Now, before I speak my mind on the piece, let me say I still love my university, I just have a more reserved side upon what this class stands for and ultimately means. The class itself upsets me because there is an implication that white people are the center and root for racism, which I personally disagree with. Yes, the forefathers of this nation hundreds of years ago practiced slavery, yet were countered by the upright and just-thinking members of the Union army.

This is not the first time we see slavery being used as a common economical process for free labor, ranging from times to ancient Egypt, Rome, Macedonia, and many more. The practice of slavery was alive, it was outlawed, and the nation has never been proud of the actions the Confederacy committed.

Yet, racism is quite prevalent in life today and practiced by all people. Racism is the act of being racist, which is defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

There is no mention of white or being white in the description of that definition.

Racism is a universal illness that is further persisted and alive through the acknowledgment and need to have a college course that encourages the theory that white people are at the heart of racism.

I am a Cuban, Portuguese, Hispanic young male.

I am six-feet-tall with a large nose and olive, tan skin at best — pretty white complexion all in all.

My grandparents on my mom’s side had to flee from the tropical island of Cuba to make a better life for my mother and me, in turn.

I would not say I personally identify myself as an eastern European or "white" person because of my heritage — I mean my last name is Rezendes, for Christ's sake.

I went to an inner-city public school where the student body was made up of primarily African-American students leading up to the sixth grade where I began at a Catholic school near the beach with the majority of white students. I had met a lot of people from completely opposite walks of life and had a full comprehension of the definition of privilege and the topic of racism.

Though the readers view on the class may vary, one thing is for sure: Racism is a cancer that should fizzle out and should be stopped as soon as possible, since, at the end of the day, our skin tissue decomposes underground along with the rest of our body just like every other living breathing human on this planet.