How Does Racism Still Exist Today
Does racism still exist today? Many people nowadays are still racist today and doesn’t understand that we live in a world where all races are together. It’s not black or white or white and hispanic, it’s everybody. If people centuries ago overcame blacks not being slaves and segregated anymore than people in this world today should do the same. With everything going on in ferguson, and other places we should be more sensitive about what we do and say to people. Especially to younger people because they’re going to grow up thinking it’s ok not to like a certain race or be rude to them. We should stand up to people who still have a racist perspective and show them that everybody should get along. People might be racist today is because the shooting of blacks by white cops, tradition, and people’s perspective.
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Many people think just because a black person died because they got shot by a white person it’s racist. People have a valid reason for it because in Ferguson when Michael Brown got shot for just jaywalking across the street, it seemed that the cop just killed him because he was a threat. Also when TrayVon Martin got killed by George Zimmerman because he thought he was suspicious. All these valid points lead to racism and when the people get released from jail or no action is taken towards them it seems that nobody cares what happens to black people. It’s not only blacks that’s getting mistreated, it’s also mexican. A woman went to the grocery store and got racially profiled “When the clerk at the store asks me for an I.D. card when I use a credit card after I've just seen the three white women in line in front of me use theirs without being asked for the same thing, it's racism”(Young people and Racism). Therefore we need to take a stand and teach people just because a certain person of that race acts crazy doesn’t mean they’re all the
Many people think just because a black person died because they got shot by a white person it’s racist. People have a valid reason for it because in Ferguson when Michael Brown got shot for just jaywalking across the street, it seemed that the cop just killed him because he was a threat. Also when TrayVon Martin got killed by George Zimmerman because he thought he was suspicious. All these valid points lead to racism and when the people get released from jail or no action is taken towards them it seems that nobody cares what happens to black people. It’s not only blacks that’s getting mistreated, it’s also mexican. A woman went to the grocery store and got racially profiled “When the clerk at the store asks me for an I.D. card when I use a credit card after I've just seen the three white women in line in front of me use theirs without being asked for the same thing, it's racism”(Young people and Racism). Therefore we need to take a stand and teach people just because a certain person of that race acts crazy doesn’t mean they’re all the