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Essay On Hea History

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Race is the classification of people depending of their ancestry and genetics which ultimately determines their skin color and physical traits. Racism is the prejudice or discrimination of another race, driven by feelings of superiority of one's own race. Often times racism is driven by a system that "clearly operates to the advantages of whites and to the disadvantages of people of color" (110). Race has an impact on our society every single day since we tend to hold back from approaching people that we think wrong of, due to misunderstanding of their race. There are also times that we hold back from approaching people we feel like we are being prejudiced against and will be misunderstood as we come in contact with that person. It is not so much about race but about how media portrays different races and how we perceive them through what we …show more content…

As much as people try to deny the truth, historical documentation will provide the evidence that needs to be shown to open the eyes of the blind. Because institutions are run by "the new people," matters of race in this country are not taken the way it should be the only care for the advantage of their own. When it comes to an issue regarding the minority, justice is often times never to be seen. There is, indeed, a correlation between the documents and racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, education, and/or health because in terms of education an act prohibiting the teaching of slave to read stated that "to keep slaves in hand, it was necessary to keep them innocent of the printed page" (488). By prohibiting the slaves from the use of the printed page their education is taken away, and conviction at the discretion of the court is given to anyone that tried to help slaves with reading and writing. Yet again race played a factor in this because punishment depended on whether or not the person that was helping the slaves was a white person or a free person of

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