What is Racism: a Definition and Examples

What is racism? Racism is discrimination and/or being prejudice against another race. My paper is going to inform you on events on racism that have affected us humans throughout history. There has been so many events based on racism that are still on going to this day. I will give you my personal thoughts on how I feel about racism.

Racism and prejudice has been around for centuries and is still very popular today. My topic is mainly focused on racism towards african american culture.

They have suffered racism the most and are still battling against racism. An example of racism is Tupac Shakur, one of the most famous and successful artist in his time and still to this day, and has always influenced people with his music. He rapped about his struggles in life with racism, he reflects on his music to let people know and understand what he goes through with racism and sends out messages on his personal reflection of the racist world we live in.

There has been a lot of struggles with racism. Many old rappers from the 1980s have rapped about their struggles. Most of their racism struggles were police brutality. Racism was very popular in those times. They used their music to influence people on the struggles in that time since it was way more popular. Police brutality was what they have mostly struggled with. Police brutality is still popular today just not as much as it was decades ago.

Despite the fact that african americans were facing racism in the late 1900s, the prejudice against african americans has always been around. For example, when slavery ended, the prejudice was even stronger, now that the black man had his own rights and freedom, yet white people were still keeping themselves segregated from african americans. Even when a black man would want to have a meal at a restaurant, if a white owner didn’t want a person of color in his restaurant, he had the ability to not grant them service.

Up until this day, with racism still being around, you’d think with laws being passed about granting everyone their rights regardless of race, that it helps fix the problem of racism just a little bit, but it’s beginning to feel like history is relapsing again with the amount of prejudice there still is today. For another example, Rosa Parks, who was arrested simply because she didn’t want to give up her seat on a bus and was told to go the back of the bus. There was no crime committed, no murder, no battery, all she said was no and was incarcerated for it.

Another person who had big influence on racism was Martin Luther King Jr, who was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s up until his death. During his time of life, when he lead the civil rights movements, he accomplished things that other african americans could only be so hopeful for, King ended the legal segregation of african americans in the United States.

Lastly, after all the examples and explanations of racism, I personally think racism is unjust and unnecessary. There is literally no explanation to why someone could be so hateful on someone who is a different skin tone than someone else. Aside from stereotypes on african americans and vice versa, the prejudice against african americans is immature and definitely says alot about how childish a racist person is. Even with the racism today, with police officers finding a reason and even coming up with absurd reasons to shoot or arrest a black man, they’re starting to make it seem like they do it for fun now knowing they can get away with it. That’s personally how I feel about racism and why I’m against it.

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