Arguments Against Racism

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I believe that we are all equal. The problem with Racism and Discrimination has once again become a major problem. It’s possible that every man and women can unite without any racial issues but the egos of those get in the way and that creates the issue that we are currently having relating to racism. White nationalist and civil rights activist have begun to protest, these protest have led to many cases of violence and riots all over the United States. Nationalist are even assaulting civil rights activist and going to the extent of murdering or beating innocent colored bystanders. Police are even refusing to intervene. Berkeley police chief Andrew Greenwood defended how police handled the protest, saying they made a strategic decision to let the anarchists enter to avoid more violence. Greenwood said to The Associated Press: “the potential use of force became very problematic” police are trying to their best to deal with this situation in a civil and nonviolent way to avoid more violence due to the action of physical force.
Protesters have lost respect and have begun vandalizing memorials and statuses all over the United States. In several cities many Americans have taken the matter into their own hands and began
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Colored individuals were treated terrible and were looked down upon, unable to be educated or even pursue a dream. Instead slaves where traded off and spilt apart from their families. Slaves began doing hard labor from all ages, from kids to the elderly. Later on down the road civil rights activist began to rise up and fight for their freedom, activist like Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King presented over 250,000 people with his “I have a dream” speech, this became the up rise to ending slavery. As years passed segregation became the problem but it was progress to ending slavery. Colored individuals began receiving the opportunity to receive an education, not only that but the attend school with white

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