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The contributing factors that I found were caused for the rise of racism are “the exploitation relations that Europeans established with the peoples they conquered”, “an opposition between the colors white and black as cultural symbols was deeply rooted in European culture”, and “the invention and diffusion of the concept of race itself.” Today racism isn’t that big of a deal like it was back in the colonial era, but it still can show up out of nowhere. We don’t have separate water fountains, we don’t make African Americans sit in the back of the bus, and we don’t have laws prohibiting them on what they can and can’t do. A lot has changed from then and now and it’s for the better. As we think back on how we treated African Americans I think most people can say how wrong and selfish we were. To bass some ones social status on the color of their skin is not right to any degree and the world has grown from the mistakes that happened. For my major, criminal justice, I will deal with many situations where someone will call me racist. It’s not something that will go away because sometimes African Americans rely on it to get a point across or blame what happened on you in anyway necessary. There was a time where whites believed having black was symbolic for evil. They didn’t think it was right to be a different color and wanted to blame all the wrong doings or plagues on the blacks. This resulted in the formation of the Ku Klux Klan where they took African American’s from their homes and hung them. They didn’t have to do anything wrong per say, the whites just believed being black was wrong. The whites wanted to make African American’s feel fear so they made rules they had to follow so they “kept them in line” in a way. Racism doesn’t just focus on African Americans, it can connect with Asians, and Mexicans. Racism has exists for thousands of years and I feel it will never disappear because of how parents raise their children to believe what they were taught