America Has A Great Deal Of Issues With Racism

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Racism has been a big problem in the U.S. for all races for a very long time and continues to be a problem to this day,. Racism has been a big part in U.S. history and has changed over time, some of these races were African Americans, American Indians, and Mexican Americans, for American Indians it was how they were treated wrong socially and economically.

    Since the beginning of American history, the black race has been the inferior race during times of slavery and times of freedom for black people. They have had to fight to be seen as legitimate first-class citizens, whether that be through slave uprisings in the pre-civil war era, the civil rights movement in the mid-1900’s, or the Black Lives Matter campaign that was started in 2013. Though not everyone has lived an easy life, and not everyone will, the people who have had it the hardest were the enslaved African-Americans in the early stages of our country.

grueling work. They would treat them as they did the Indians, and for much the

The colonies of 1916 were desperate for labor and manpower, to grow enough food to stay alive since agriculture and craftwork were key to the development of the colonies. The colonists thought about forcing the Indians to work for them, but they were massively outnumbered (Zinn). Initially, indentured white servants were used for labor, but there was not a sufficient quantity of them and the amount of work was increasing. Fearing a servant revolt, the colonies resorted to using African slaves rather than the servants. They relied on the slaves to work on the plantations or mine precious metals.

In the mid 19th century racism had started to occur. Then it quickly transferred into slavery where than African Americans were slaves to the whites. The African Americans were not brought to America by choice but because the whites decided to use them for slavery. Some whites would trade them for any house supplies they needed, and they were sold to the colonist of Europe. Where then they had labor work that needed to be done, African’s did not get a wage for doing this labor. There was a law that Africans were not considered humans, but objects that worked. When Americans won the land from the british, Africans were not exactly free from slavery. Slavery was a hard subject to talk about but they still did not receive the respect they needed. They were not even

needed as workers and were therefore used as so . What are Blacks needed for

Black people were no longer slaves, but were still not treated with cordial respect. White people had

Horrid, corrupt, evil, and foul are just a few of the words that come to mind when I attempt to describe the individuals who attempted to uphold

But, the wages for such labor were quite minimal. African laborers were also employed to construct roads and railways for communication, and even yet these jobs provided very inadequate funds for living expenses and decent survival.

Throughout history, blacks have been treated the poorest out of all races. Although everyone under God is to be treated equal, whites thought of themselves as being the superior race. In 1619 a Dutch ship brought 20 slaves to America and it took nearly 240 years for slavery to end in 1865(Ronald, , para. 3).These helpless slaves were taken to America and put to work growing anything from cotton to tobacco. Slaves had absolutely no rights. They were simply property of their “Massa’.” Being disrespectful to a white man could get a Negro killed and they just accepted the facts of the matter. The south was the most notorious in its treatment of slaves and slaves would run away. It was a big risk, but a slave that made it to a

Why were they enslaved at the time when America was in war and was divided into two groups? Why were they shot just for petty crimes? Why is that after such a long time, people still consider them as inferior? I kept finding a connection between these until I finally realized a pattern. I saw it as clear as crystal, it was the abhorrent truth of racism.

Racism in this country has been prevalent over centuries now, and still a huge hindrance in the United States of America. Racism has a huge history with scholars documenting the long illustrious reasons and root causes as to why this has become such a major topic of issue in the United States and its psychological and social obliterations in the society.

Today African Americans still face discrimination, poverty, and bad education system. 580,000 black men are incarcerated and many unemployed. So at time black are still treated as second-class citizens. Rights are not equal jobs and opportunities are limited.

Racism has been a long standing something or other of the United States. It is a dark mark on history that has been here since Christopher Columbus. With the arrival of Europeans on American soil, racism against Native Americans developed within the plot to conquer their land. There was belief that the natives were savages that needed to become civilized through religion and European culture. As more and more people