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Persuasive Writing Piece – Racial Segregation

On January 8th, 2013 – 9.30pm, an African American teenager was violently abused and assaulted by 3 middle aged men. It was stated the 14 year old was on his way home from a local supermarket when he was brutally jumped by 3 white fully grown men; each over 6 feet tall. The innocent boy was repeatedly struck by fierce blow that the men delivered simultaneously, killing the youth in just under a minute. It was reported that the boy had accidently invaded a private area of land that belonged to the men. They said that people who had a dark skin tone were not allowed near the land or they would suffer consequences. The men were all jailed for life imprisonment after a long trial. But this makes us think. Why did they do this? Why did it have to exist? Why does it still exist? There cannot be an adequate justification for this.
Segregation…racial…segregation.
Do you remember when restaurants had signs on them which read ‘no black people allowed’? Do you remember when and old black women with fragile bones was forced and abused to give her seat up for a middle aged white man on the local bus? To us, this is all faded away information which has decomposed in our memory after the countless history lessons we have sat through at school as we listened about life in the harsh conditions and racist law during 1870’s and through the 1950’s. However these should not be memories. The unfortunate truth is that segregation still exists today. Around the world, 6 people each day suffer abuse because of their skin tone. Although the media desires not to inform us about the abuse and torture that people experience every day because of their ethnicity, the truth cannot be hidden forever. Today in many countries, crime rates are increasing and especially in America as during 2013, there has been an estimated 300 incidents linked with racial segregation.
We never live to imagine London with an area specifically for one race. America has still a chief dilemma towards racism. Wherever you go whether its New York or Milwaukee, you will find the neighborhoods which contain only black people and other neighborhoods containing only white people. In America, the average black person lives in a neighborhood that is approximately 45 percent black. Without racial segregation, the neighborhood would be only 13 percent black, according to professors John Logan and Brian Stults at Brown and Florida State. It is clearly wrong that this exists yet people put in hardly an effort to stop this isolation. Would you? It is atrocious that there are groups of extreme people and gangs around the world who have purpose of killing innocent people of other race.Have you ever imagined that you get turned down for a job due to the simple fact that your skin tone is darker than someone else’s or because your accent sounds foreign? It is merely an abomination.
So how would the world be without racial segregation? In my personal opinion, it would create an atmosphere which is peaceful, compassionate and suitable as people can all live unperturbed by hated. Communities would work together and all above the world would become a place of far more equity. Humans do not deserve to be mistreated due to their race. Everyone deserves equal rights regardless of background. Me. You. Everyone.