Racism And The Ignorance

“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant.” This quote by Pierre Berton describes how racists are showing lack of knowledge and being closed minded about the topic. Racism is an opinion that causes others to have great negativity towards each other. How is racism affecting us?

The way racism began was when people think they are more than others. The most overheard event in racism history was black slavery. We learned this in school. They let their skin color decided their actions. They, as in the Europeans and America. Europeans would kidnap Africans and separate them from families. Africans were being bought and were being sold. They were being beaten and tortured when they don’t listen or don’t do as they were told. In an article presented
It’s been quieter but we have typical stereotypes about each different race. Asians were assumed smart and that we can’t see because of our eyes. African males were assumed reckless and African girls were assumed disrespectful. White people are supposedly rich and girls with blond hair are dumb. Amanda Nguyen who wrote the articles on “Racism in North America, then and now” indicated on how race has their stereotypical views on everyone. On the other hand, there’s no more segregation between each race. Each race gets to pick and choose what they can do with their life which is more freedom. We get around things faster and we’re able to be friends with every race. We can go to school with different races and jobs are open for all race. A few things had changed but we can’t really change others minds about
The choices we pick causes most destructions. In an article by Lucy D. Suddreth, “How Racism affects everyone”, Dr. Poussaint quoted, “Racism can destroy us as individuals and ultimately destroy the world.” This explains something like war. When racism takes over our mind, it blocks out every single effect of what bad things could happen. If the United States were to bomb Russia because we dislike them this would be racist and cause war. The Russians hacked into polling with Donald Trump so he can win. It’s not proven but Russians did hack our computers to mess with our systems. Racism causes crazy protest and riots depending everyone to be equal. There’s crimes that involve racism. White men harassing black women because they won’t get anywhere in life. Different race murder each other's families because of who they are or who they believe in. It’s becoming a social issue with many of us and deaths because all they would care about is their