Examples Of Racism In America
Racism in America.
Felix; a smart and young boy; is walking down the street, alone coming from the drugstore, in the dark of night. Felix is walking peacefully home, then, a cop pulls up, and yells for him to stop. Felix gets very worried, his mind racing a mile a minute, and his body comes to a stop. The cop yells, “Put your hands up!” He slowly starts to put his hands up, and 17 seconds later, Felix, hears a single gunshot. The next day all over the news, “Black Man is Shot by Police.” There is still racism in America today. All around America, African Americans feel inferior to White men and women. In the book, Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, it shows the racism that was in the 1830s. In the book, a White person and a Black person were …show more content…
This book clearly paints a picture of how African Americans are placed into inferiority. This classic novel, helps the young generation watch out for all the racism that goes on in our society today, and not to judge people just because they are different. In America, race discrimination is still very prominent today, making African Americans feel inferior in society.
Racism is all around, from old prejudices, to racism in schools, to social media, even police brutality, racism has never left our society. In fact, “Because we live in the society that we do, in which meanings and values are attached to skin color, and learned almost by osmosis, when we relate to one another, we carry unacknowledged biases and associations. These unacknowledged biases and associations, when they become widespread and commonly shared, lead to making public policies that benet some and disadvantage others” (Massingale 21). In a society, based on prejudice, in society people naturally make someone who is different from them feel inferior. People have feelings attached to a different skin color. For centuries, White Americans put African Americans under them, because they had
Felix; a smart and young boy; is walking down the street, alone coming from the drugstore, in the dark of night. Felix is walking peacefully home, then, a cop pulls up, and yells for him to stop. Felix gets very worried, his mind racing a mile a minute, and his body comes to a stop. The cop yells, “Put your hands up!” He slowly starts to put his hands up, and 17 seconds later, Felix, hears a single gunshot. The next day all over the news, “Black Man is Shot by Police.” There is still racism in America today. All around America, African Americans feel inferior to White men and women. In the book, Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, it shows the racism that was in the 1830s. In the book, a White person and a Black person were …show more content…
This book clearly paints a picture of how African Americans are placed into inferiority. This classic novel, helps the young generation watch out for all the racism that goes on in our society today, and not to judge people just because they are different. In America, race discrimination is still very prominent today, making African Americans feel inferior in society.
Racism is all around, from old prejudices, to racism in schools, to social media, even police brutality, racism has never left our society. In fact, “Because we live in the society that we do, in which meanings and values are attached to skin color, and learned almost by osmosis, when we relate to one another, we carry unacknowledged biases and associations. These unacknowledged biases and associations, when they become widespread and commonly shared, lead to making public policies that benet some and disadvantage others” (Massingale 21). In a society, based on prejudice, in society people naturally make someone who is different from them feel inferior. People have feelings attached to a different skin color. For centuries, White Americans put African Americans under them, because they had