What Is Racism?
What is Racism?
Ricky L. Barnes
AIU Online
January 30, 2013
What is racism? Racism is a person who dislikes or hates another race or culture. This also means prejudice and discrimination. Racism started long ago even before slavery with the Africans or blacks. For an example, the Greeks and Romans didn’t like the Barbarians which were people who lived in northern Europe. They called them barbarians because they didn’t have the education or lifestyle the way the Greeks and Romans lived. Just like the white people called Africans; niggers, which the true definition is an ignorant person. Why, because we couldn’t speak english, or couldn’t read and write. But later, the term “nigger” became a definition of a black person which is part of racism. Different ethnic groups had they partake of racism and the learning about the fight of the Native Americans, African Americans and Jews; will give you a true definition of racism. Native Americans also known as Indians were named that because; Christopher Columbus didn’t even know where he was. He thought he was in India but actually he landed on one of the islands in the Caribbean which now is called the West Indies. They say Columbus discovered America, how can you discover something if people (the Native Americans) already lived there? Which brings me to the next question, why do they call Indians, Native Americans if they were here first? America was named after an Italian navigator, named Amerigo Vespucci which the Spaniards honored him. (Amerigo Vespucci. (2011). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1.) The Natives, (there correct name) were intrigued and curious about the white man. But little that they know, there were disliked because of their culture and lifestyle. For an example you think the Natives and the Pilgrims had a feast together that’s why we have Thanksgiving. Yes, they were all there but the Natives were dead, because the Pilgrims were celebrating the victory of taking over there land
Ricky L. Barnes
AIU Online
January 30, 2013
What is racism? Racism is a person who dislikes or hates another race or culture. This also means prejudice and discrimination. Racism started long ago even before slavery with the Africans or blacks. For an example, the Greeks and Romans didn’t like the Barbarians which were people who lived in northern Europe. They called them barbarians because they didn’t have the education or lifestyle the way the Greeks and Romans lived. Just like the white people called Africans; niggers, which the true definition is an ignorant person. Why, because we couldn’t speak english, or couldn’t read and write. But later, the term “nigger” became a definition of a black person which is part of racism. Different ethnic groups had they partake of racism and the learning about the fight of the Native Americans, African Americans and Jews; will give you a true definition of racism. Native Americans also known as Indians were named that because; Christopher Columbus didn’t even know where he was. He thought he was in India but actually he landed on one of the islands in the Caribbean which now is called the West Indies. They say Columbus discovered America, how can you discover something if people (the Native Americans) already lived there? Which brings me to the next question, why do they call Indians, Native Americans if they were here first? America was named after an Italian navigator, named Amerigo Vespucci which the Spaniards honored him. (Amerigo Vespucci. (2011). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1.) The Natives, (there correct name) were intrigued and curious about the white man. But little that they know, there were disliked because of their culture and lifestyle. For an example you think the Natives and the Pilgrims had a feast together that’s why we have Thanksgiving. Yes, they were all there but the Natives were dead, because the Pilgrims were celebrating the victory of taking over there land
References: Amerigo Vespucci. (2011). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1. Jackson, T. (2008). "Bread of Freedom": Martin Luther King, Jr. and Human Rights. OAH Magazine Of History, 22(2), 14.