Discrimination On Race And Racism

As children grow up, they become the person they turn out to be because of experiences and the culture and society they grew up in. Nations are affected in the same sense because the people living in a nation affect how the nation is influenced and builds its character.

Racism of course comes in various forms and it has existed throughout the world not only in North America affecting colored people. Specially since according to PBS.org, “ancient societies did not divide people according to physical differences, but according to religion, status, class, and even language.” Beginning with the slave era when black people were being forced into labor with little to no respect. Degrading them and abusing them as if they were animals. Racism took its course on making European Americans the superior race and African Americans the others who had to conform to the superior race’s demands. As John Clarke explains in his essay titled Race: An evolving Issue in Western Social Thought, when the Europeans gained enough maritime skill and gun power to conquer most of the world, they didn't conquer the people by itself but its history. “Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to conquest and colonization.” Thus, the dehumanization of African people which consisted of cruel acts towards them, enslavement, and the portrayal of beings of low behavior, barely human and therefore it was unnecessary to make them part of history when they were classified as brute and unproductive. These stereotypes of Africans being savage, moronic, between other demining definitions were constantly repeated to them that consequently they ended up believing it was true. Until this time African Americans and black people in general are depicted as unproductive and lazy people who are waiting around for the government to maintain them. Stereotypes which are obviously a way to continue to diminish black folks and make them believe that they are still the inferior race and white folks the dominating

Throughout history in America there has always been the idea of racism. When Americans think of racism, they usually think of slavery and that racism is no longer a problem in America. However, this is not the case. Racism is still very apparent in America. It is true that since the end of slavery, the U.S. has made great strides towards becoming a less racist country. In reality, racism will never be extinct. In today’s society, all American citizens of all races have the same rights as one another, yet there is still racism. Racism can be linked directly to stereotypical mindsets of certain groups of people. It is human nature to make conclusions about other people, this is what leads to racism. Today’s racism is not limited to whites

Racism goes a long way down the American history. It came as a result of slavery which began in 1619 when African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, which was an American colony in the North, to help in producing crops such as tobacco. Slavery was then a common practice in all American colonies through the 17th and 18th centuries, where African slaves helped in building the economic foundations of the now American nation. Slavery was then spread to the South in 1793, with the new invention of the cotton gin. About halfway through the 19th century, there was immense westward expansion in America, together with the spreading abolition movement in the North,

Racism has existed in America for centuries. The relations between Whites and Blacks first began in 1696 when a Dutch ship brought twenty slaves into Virginia. Their origins of enslaving the Blacks led to white people believing they were the superior race. Slavery was abolished when the Civil War ended in 1865, but black people still did not receive equal treatment. This struggle for equality was caused by a legislation called the Jim Crow laws, which prohibited African Americans from using the same luxuries as their Caucasian counterparts. The struggle to achieve equality was made even more difficult by the legislation of racism in the Plessy v Ferguson case.

Racism started when African American slaves were brought to the new world (America) to aid in the harvest of tobacco crops. Slaves were treated badly by being beaten and whipped. Punishments were normally a response to disobedience but others were abused by their owner to show dominance. Because of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 slaves were freed into areas all over the United States (U.S.), but Lincoln’s Proclamation did not stop people from having hate against African Americans. Americans need to hinder racism by following federal laws, like the Civil Rights Act, that are established so racism can be abolished once and for all.

Racism still exists in America today. This is a very verifiable fact for it is estimated that currently in the United States there exists 751 active hate groups that espouse racism and hate based on a persons race, ethnicity, or religion (Southern Poverty Law Center, 2003). This data is very

Today, racism and racial discrimination is something you see everyday. Whether it be in a news story, an article on social media, or something that you personally witness, but what is racism? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes racism as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. This means that one race will discriminate another because they believe that their race is better. Some people think that the only people that can be racist are white people. Their definition of racism is summed up to white people discriminating against the minority including African Americans and Latinos. Their definition of racism is not true. Racism does go both ways. Anyone is capable of saying, “Hey, my race is better than yours for this reason.” This is called reverse racism. The term reverse racism is referred to as discrimination against racial majorities inflicted by racial minorities. Reverse racism does exist and it is just as common as racism (“Racism”).

The main cause for racism is the human decisions that people make and the historical force of creating an ideology based on past events or a former way of thinking. That is how American slavery began, through a former way of thinking from people who influence you the most when growing up. Edmund Morgan writes in his history of early Virginia “ …let them settle down and plant their corn wherever they chose, and then, just before harvest, fall upon them, killing as many as possible and burning the corn….within 2-3 years of the massacre the English avenged the death day many times over” (13). Not able to enslave the Indians, and not able to live with them, the English decided to exterminate them. This led to countless battles between the Indians

Although racism has changed over time these past 50 years, racism in many ways still exists. Everybody has their own opinion and those opinions are influenced by the public and the media. In some way,

Although racism is still present, it has evolved. In this day in age racial comments violate civil rights. African Americans have the right to vote among many other rights. Segregation is no longer legal. Education among African Americans and Caucasians is equal. So many obstacles have been overcome giving hope to a race for social justice. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite” (Nelson

Racism is as old as history that’s because it was known in history everyone was divided by race. This division had caused trouble because of how they treated each other or how the powerful treated the others. There are plenty of examples of this, but only one of them stands out in my book .The biggest most memorable discrimination is the one between the Americans and the African Americans. The African Americans were placed in the lower and below class by the Americans. Their relationship if there was any was known as master and slave, owner and property, and exterminator and vermin. Basically, life for them was the hard knock more like the eternity in hell.

Racism has been around for several decades, and it is still around today, unfortunately. According to Google, the definition of racism is “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one 's own race is superior.” When it comes to the book Straight Talk About…Racism and Prejudice by Marguerite Rodger and Jessie Rodger, the definition of racism is “the belief that people of different ethnic backgrounds are unequal.” Racism has a unique history in America that has impacted the lines of education and has evolved to continue the blurred lines of minority group conflicts all the while enabling a poor and weakened education.

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.

Racism has been around since the beginning of time, whether it was between the Egyptians and Israelites, the Spaniards and the Native Americans, or the people of the United States and Africans. The latter group of people were enslaved by the former, and while that does not exist anymore, racism still exists. Slavery has been abolished since 1865 in the United States, but there are still people in our country that do not believe that minorities are equal. For that reason, their lives are still different than the lives of the people in the majority race. Whether they are African American, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, etc., their lives are usually much different than those of European descent. Growing up with an African American father and mother