Race and World Racism

Here we are together and united celebrating one of the most crucial events throughout history - Black History Month. I am so thankful to be here, not only to view this wonderful moment, but to share this unreplaceable moment where everyone is equal and are all for one, one for all. Right now in this moment, believe it or not, us as a whole are living someone’s dream as Martin Luther King once had a dream that we all will be united without being judged by our race and be equal, as he once said: ‘I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.’ His dream has some sort of been fulfilled – we are here together from different countries all over the world in one place, celebrating and amazing event together.
Though we are here together for the main reason of black history month caused by racism, throughout the world racism is still a serious issue that faces society today. Those who are out there that are racist, do they really understand the meaning of racism? As for those people, racism is the discrimination of a person simply because of the race that they have inherited. There are many types of racism, for example racism because of skin colour, birth place, religion etc.; and all these have one thing in common. All kinds of racism are dreadfully despicable and create a negative and sometimes a dangerous, emotional response.

Those who do not fully understand what racism means and the effect of racism, racism is awful and many might not know but racism does not only leads to social problems, but in severe cases it causes mental illness and violence such as: self-harm, depression and harming others around. The other effect is that it causes the innocent victim to feel worthless, as though their worth only a penny, and also causes them to feel depressed and angry leaving them emotionally wrecked. As racism already causes social