Racism Essay Research Paper Racism Everywhere you

Racism Essay, Research Paper

Racism

Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always somebody different.

The American society focuses on that person, or group of people. They made them feel

worthless and they treated them like animals.

Imagine walking down the street and having people stare at you or call you

names, or talk behind your back. Imagine not knowing the time because nobody will tell

you. Why won.t they tell you the time, or spare you some change. Because your black.

Actually, because your skin is a different color, your because your a different kind of

religion. In a way I admire them because they.ve survived for hundreds of years until

they were free, and now that they.re free, the modern white men harasses them and beats

them. I mean, they even had a world wide organization named for them.

The KKK has been around for awhile. The KKK or the Ku Klux Klan, was

started to get rid of blacks and Jewish people. The author of “A Monument to Racism”

writes in her article that she was in Flowery Branch, Georgia, and in front of Danny

Carver.s house, he.s a KKK leader, was 8 or more signs, and on these signs read: “A

brain is a terrible thing to waste, that.s why niggers don.t have one. (Glamour 110).”

Another sign said “NAACP” or “Niggers, Alligators, Apes, Coons, and Possums. Or

insisting that blacks don.t have brains and that they should be treated like animals.

There.s a figurine in front of the yard that had 4 young black men sitting on it with 2

KKK hooded members by them. To top it off, Carver.s lawn was on the Atlantic

highway, the main way through the capital. I strongly agree with Valerie Joseph when

she says that she “wanted to believe that people actually cared, she wanted to believe that

there were lawyers, activists, parents, church groups of all races that were bombarding

this man with phone calls and letters. She hoped that maybe teenagers would plan to

smash the figurines in the middle of the night. (Joseph 110). You can help stop this, all

you have to do is try to accept black people as you do anyone else. If you can.t, you

don.t have to express it, keep it to yourself. If you hear somebody saying something

about somebody else, all you have to do is say listen, there just as equal as you are. If

you do it, pretty soon they.ll quit.

I was in a situation one time at a bus station and was wearing baggy pants and a

shirt, I also had my beeper on. I came into the bus station off the bus and I sat down. I

heard footsteps coming closer to me and I thought I smelled alcohol. When I turned

around there was a man standing there, I said is there something I can do for you. He

turned to me and got right up in my face and said why do you wear such baggy pants. I

said their comfortable, and “Why do you wear such tight pants.” You know the old

saying: Don.t EVER mess with a drunk person. Well, I didn.t take that to heart at that

point, and the man said “What are you, some kinda nigger.” I wanted to say are there

different kinds. Then the man started taking off his gloves, he said “If you were a

nigger, I.d hit you!” I didn.t really care if he did because he.d be the only one paying for

it. Actually, I.d probably be in the hospital because that guy looked like he could pack a

punch. Then the next day I seen him talking to a BIG black man, just conversing, no

racism in his voice. It just goes to show you how hypocritical people can be when

they.re racist, but not to black people.s faces.

Many years ago the states had to force business. and schools. to allow blacks in.

For example, the Brown V. Board of Education, or years before federal troops forced

Little Rock Central high School to admit black students. The question I ask is why

would they want to be there if the government had to force the school system to let them

in.

Also, many years ago, there was a segregation. I.m sure all of you know what

that was. It was simply when blacks and whites were separated in everyday life. They

had different water fountains, restrooms, different lines at plays and movies, and blacks

also had to sit in the back of the bus while whites had top picks on seats even if it meant

standing when a white person took your seat. Then, segregation finally was abolished.

“As blacks acquired middle-class status, just like whites before them, they moved out of

central cities, and the sustaining buffers between lower-class blacks and the surrounding

white role models, etc.- were largely removed.” (USA TODAY 55)

I was looking through “Time” magazine and I found an article that was titled

“Evict thy Neighbor.” It was about a couple that had been getting harassed by their

neighbors, they sued for $10 million in damages. Instead, U.S. District Court judge Ann

Williams authorized a settlement agreement, that will be that the harassers will have to

leave their home within 180 days.

So, there are all these peopl

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