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The Shadow Of Hate Analysis

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The Shadow of Hate
Racism is one of the biggest problems today. As we look back, a considerable measure of our history is based on racial discrimination, hatred, and African Americans being treated as slaves. The Shadow of Hate revolves around a history of intolerance in America, and how the origins of race affected American people. The Shadow of Hate was an eye opener as it shows how the native Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, Jews, and Hispanics were treated back in the days. In this paper, I am going to summarize the documentary and compose my perspectives on what I think about it.
Racism in America started very early. It was in practice since the 1600s but it did not come to notice until the 1900s. The documentary of The Shadow of Hate starts with Ku Klux Klansmen …show more content…

Then the video explains how the general population who were voicing their assessment for opportunity turned into the oppressors of the individuals who did not share the same beliefs as them. They oppressed the Quakers, the Baptists, the Irish and many others. Quakers came to America for religious and political freedom in 1656 and settled in Massachusetts bay colony Boston. They were delivered, marked, detained and expelled to the forest by puritans. Like Quakers, the Baptists came to America for religious and monetary freedom and lived in Jamestown, Virginia. Through what was shown in the documentary, one can tell that they were not treated well. In fact, the Baptists were treated worse than Quakers. Like the Baptists and Quakers, Irish, Chinese, and Japanese came to America for better opportunities and freedom as well. Irish mainly came to America for potato famine and settled in different states such as Philadelphia, Boston and New York. While Chinese came to America to get rich in a gold rush, Japanese came to become successful. Chinese started working in Nevada, California and were paid less than $1 a day and Japanese started their

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