Examples Of Racism In America

African-American Males and Racism in America Last summer my family and I were on a road trip from Toronto, Ontario to Columbus, Ohio to visit friends at their wedding. On the way, over one thousand kilometers, we saw many people being pulled on the side of the freeway for whatever reason, speeding, suspicion, or changing lanes without blinkers. We noticed that whenever there was a Caucasian driver pulled over, there would be one sheriff behind the pulled over vehicle. Later, we saw several more instances of African-Americans being pulled over with two or more sheriff enforced vehicles with their hands on top of their guns prepared for the worst. These may have been coincidences, but it made me wonder why this was?
Research needed to be done quickly, I found a couple of news articles and found surprising facts about African-Americans and racism in America. According to the New York Times African-American men are more likely to be held to account
There are various solutions in the world to prevent or decrease racism. There are ways we can minimize racism through the workplace in making institutional policies. Which stop or at least prevent racism from as simple as racial carding to prevention of pulling the trigger. However, this does not dictate that any attempts would put an end to racism because the thought behind being superior to another skin colour, hence racism, may exist for eternity. What I am attempting to voice is that institutions and the general public can work together and help bring racism down. If people can think of life from a different perspective like a bigger picture, and not to feel superior from other individuals because of their skin colour. African-American or not, and accept them for who they are, would be a significant step towards bringing racism to a near