Well Informed 2- Racism

Racism is something I think we will always deal with as a community and society. This is something that has been going on for years. I found in my research that racism has been around since the 1500’s. People took slaves from other countries and brought them to their country to work for free. This is hard to believe because we are all equal. Racism is defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. Racism starts with people not agreeing with the other on some level. Weather it is skin color, views, or religion. Racism is discrimination that brings us all down as a whole. If we didn’t have racism our country would be better off because there are so many violence based off racism.

Matthew Cooke explained the history of racism and what happens and where it comes from with race baiting. Race baiting is (uncountable) the use of racially derisive language, actions, or other forms of communication in order to anger or intimidate or coerce. Matthew talks about how slaves sometimes didn’t depend on skin color but loss on war. Even though slavery ended racism fell quickly after. Slave owners lost all there slaves so therefore were mad at and racial towards African Americans. He explains how African Americans were cursed and that god supported racial segregation back then in the eyes of a of white people. Racism took a toll during the Martin Luther King era when he fought for equality for African Americans. Rosa Parks also played a role in this by not giving up her seat on a bus. These events made racism take a turn for the better with making mix schools and able to use the same bathrooms and things. Today we have other racism problems like police brutality against minorities.