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Racism has a strong hold on country and even world today. Although racism is not as visible, openly shown, and even hidden in present times, as long as it plagues our minds and affects our decisions in the slightest ways, it has a hold on us. Racism doesn't just have to be verbally insulting someone with a racist comment or ostracizing them for their race, it can also be present in our minds. When we label people a certain way, assume things about them because of a certain physical trait or characteristic they have, treat them differently, it's racism.

[|Article]about Racism from 1990 : code "...Everybody jumped on him, beat the hell out of him... Everybody was hitting him or kicking him. One guy was kicking at his spine. Another guy hitting on the side of the face... He was unconscious. He was bleeding. Everybody had blood on their forearms. We ran back up the hill laughing... He should have died... He lost so much blood he turned white. He got what he deserved" (Ridgeway 167.) The skinheads who performed this random act of racial violence in 1990, had no reason to brutally beat their victim other than the fact that he was Mexican (Ridgeway 167). Racism is objectively defined as any practice of ethnic discrimination or segregation.

code http://www.studyworld.com/newsite/ReportEssay/socialissues/Racial%5CRacism.htm

The article above shows that although racism is depleting as we advance forward into the future, there is still a lot of racism in our society today.

Fact: There are three different basic types of [|racism] : violent racism, covert racism, and open racism

The black workers and reporters at the NY Times were not eligible for the main award, and the prize for this award was five hundred dollars. Therefore, to make the black workers at this office place feel more appreciated, the administration created the COON award. The award for this was one intricately folded dollar. Needless to say, the black workers at this office felt shorted, but they treated the award with dignity.

By the black workers not speaking up, they are saying that it is okay for other races to make them feel inferior. In our society today, people are becoming more passive to what is being said to them. As a person of many different races, African-American, Chinese, Cherokee, South American, etc., I would feel as degraded if I had to receive a different award than what a person of a majority race would receive. If we are to truly to shatter the idea of racism in our society today, we must stand up for our beliefs yet share our beliefs peacefully.







In the picture on the left, students are attending their usual lunch, but it's not a usual day. As is going on here, thousands of schools are challenging social and racial divides during SPLC's Eighth Annual, "Mix It Up at Lunch Day" [|Mix It Up at Lunch Day]

[|Sniper Plans to kill six white people a day for 30 days] ^In 2002, John Muhammad Allen and his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo shocked the capital of the U.S. and the rest of the country when they started killing white targets. They planned to kill 6 white people a day for 30 days straight.

Now from the previous 2 articles, it seems as if adults seem to be slightly more prejudice. Kids and Teens are only what their parents teach them to be, so if their parents are prejudice, there is a good chance that the child will take after their parent. Kids naturally seems to be more tolerant because they don't see people by race, they judge them by their character and just think of them as people. I would theorize that because of adults' upbringing and the experiences they had with racism growing up, it will be much harder for them to change their ways than children and teens.

AnnBibOverton

Where I would like I to go next:

I would like to move on to answering the question that was brought up in my wiki above. Are adults more racist than children and if so, why is this? I'd plan to answer this question by searching possible cases where racism might be found in young kids today or in schools today, and how different and frequent it is in comparison to wrok places and adults.