Mrs. Glover
Into to Lit – 1st Period
5 November 2012
Racism Today Discrimination against other races is very common in society today. 2007 Yale University did a study showing a black man who murdered a white man is three times more likely to receive the death penalty than a white man who killed a black man (11 Facts). Some people might think racism has stopped since the Civil Rights Act, but discrimination against minority races is still prevalent in society today. The Civil Rights Act was established in 1964 out lawing discrimination against other races. This act has helped with discrimination against colored people, but there are still racist people in this world who hate certain races of people. An example of the act