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Jimmy Klem

English 1
1/26/17

Has Racism in America gotten better in twenty first century


or has it gotten worse
Racism has been a problem in the world for many years and every race has gone through

some sort of racial discrimination at some point in time. But have you ever thought about, have

we gotten better. I can relate to this subject because i have seen and listened to many peoples

opinion on what they think racism means. Has the problem of racism gotten better or has it

gotten worse over the years. ( definition of racism on slide)

Many would say that the problem with racism has gotten better. One point that they

would make is that in the early beginning of the United States. When the Europeans showed up

to the then home of the native americans. The Europeans called the natives bloodthirsty savages

and used that to justify their killings and stealing their land. Also in the 17th century america

started to go over to the continent of Africa to take native african people back to america to use

them as slaves. They were striped of their names and seperated from their families, wiped, and

even lynched.

Another reason is the hate groups that were formed based on hate of others race. Groups

like the KKK that was formed in 1866 to oppose the civil rights movement. They tried to strike

fear into the hearts of the African Americans by Lynching, blaming, rape, and arson. Genocide

was also done. Places like Rwanda had the Hutus killing Tutsis. In this case they tried to wipe

out the entire race.

The last reason is that we had a huge civil war that had somewhat to do with slavery. This

war tock the most american lives than any other war. In today's day we have never gotten to the

point of having to kill each other over racism. In Australia the native tribes tried to keep the
Jimmy Klem
English 1
1/26/17

Europeans from taking there land and culture by fighting them off, but without guns to match the

Europeans they did not do so well.

In the modern day racism seems to be a big problem in America. Groups like black lives

matter have formed to fight racism towards blacks. These groups hold protest that are usually

peaceful to try to send their message that they are sick of being treated like they are a lower than

everyone else. Gangs have also become very popular people to go to. Gangs usually try to harm

others to get their point across.

A point that can be made is that back in the day people did not think that what they were

doing to the native americans, african americans, japanese americans was even bad. They

thought that it was ok and god made them to be better than other races. Back in the civil war

Americans thought the African Americans were dumb and slavery was all they were good for.

They didnt think that they could actually be just like them, and so they did not have the

knowledge that we have today. Things like that make people like us who have the knowledge to

know that it is not right look worse than in the past.

Technology has become a sort of safe place for people to put their hateful messages. A

Lot of them do this because they know that nothing will happen to them. Some will single out

people and make treaties on people's lives, some will even take action.Social media can turn do a

dark place we people decide to start something up. This can led to many racially charged

comments sent back and forth towards each other.

In conclusion we have had our problems in the past that have fueled our problems now

and made racism such a big thing not just in america but in the whole world. So with this long

lasting problem it has left us with the question of who has done a worse job.

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