Racism And Stereotypes In Today's Society

Main Title: Racism/Stereotypes in Today’s Society

Abstract When we think of racism or stereotyping, we automatically think that it has to do with Whites and Blacks and how racism is dealt with as well as socialized. We base this thinking from history that is taught to us in our classrooms or by our parents. In today’s society, we experience racism in every race such as Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Pacific in which it divides people into categories whom share the same traits and/or same characteristics. Racism arises from people that may have been raised a certain way in their households or have grown with them based off of tragic events that have taken place in our society over the years. Stereotyping consists of thoughts
Over the course of history, racism and many of these stereotypes have shaped our society through events that have taken place and has reflected on how it has affected our society as a whole.
Slavery and equality at heart is some of the core factors that helped built America in terms of a dark idea and one that was eventually abolished and made African-American’s along with others of color lives a living nightmare for centuries. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 required that African Americans were guaranteed equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation and exclusion from jury services. Was this a fair trade for the two-hundred and fifty years of slavery? The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was deemed “unconstitutional” by the United States Supreme Court in 1883. Then in 1876, the “Jim Crow Laws” were enacted as a way to keep African-Americans inferior to white Americans in the United States. In many ways, whites benefited from these (separate but equal) laws, but blacks did not feel the joy in being segregated in every aspect of
One example that automatically comes to mind when discussing this topic is September 11th, 2001. I remember having breakfast one morning and while watching the news with my parents, I saw two burning buildings and bloody faces running alongside terrified commuters in the streets of Manhattan, New York. An act of terrorism brought out the worst in mankind, but also brought out the very best in a lot of people not just from America, but from around the world who had sent many good thoughts and prayers to those affected by this tragedy. Firefighters and other law enforcement agencies from around the nation raced to New York City to help in any possible way they could to first-responders and those in dire-need to get back on their feet again. In a foreseeable reaction, much anger was also spewed because of this tragedy. Whether it was the bombing of the Afghan mountains in hopes of suppressing Taliban forces responsible the for September 11th terrorist attacks or the hate crimes done in America on people who weren’t even of the Islamic-faith, but looked similar to an ignorant-minded individual. The hate transitioned to individuals who thought the rest of society would benefit off of their actions of terrorizing innocent people who looked a certain way. From this tragic event, people who are Middle Eastern are being pointed at and called racist remarks such as “Osama