When you look at a bag of jelly beans ask yourself what you see. Most people see it as just a bag of candy that is there for you to enjoy. But a bag of jelly beans can be used as a step stool for deeper thinking. If you look at a bag of jelly beans and think about what I just said, you will see what I mean.
Every year UC Davis has a book of the year. Something the school reflects on and this year it is “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum. The book talks about the issues of racism and racial identity. Tatum tries to make people realize that even though people may look different and have different ethnicities we are all still the same on the inside. College is a great example of her book it is one big melting pot full of diverse kinds of people. That’s where the similarities of jelly beans comes in. If you look at a bag of jelly beans do you notice how not one jelly bean is exactly identical to another. They all have different designs they are unique in their own way. A jelly bean might be red, purple, green, yellow or orange but yet they all have a slightly different shape and yet they all taste different. The beauty of the candy is the diversity of the design and being able to look past the shallow outside.
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