Do We Need To End Racism

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Morgan Freeman had once said to end racism we just needed to ‘stop talking about it’. I completely agree because if we are ever going to get along, and function as individuals we need to end the talk of skin colors, and the idea of a supreme race. If we stop talking about race we stop talking about the idea of a superior race, and with the ending of that we can all see that we are all the same. We all eat, breath, and sleep to function, we all have the same organs, and the same skeleton. Granted there may be differences in what we do and how we do things but we do the same basic functions as a human being. The idea that your race is important because that’s what determines what you can do is ridiculous. Why should the color of your skin determine …show more content…
This absurde idea that all black people are uneducated and dangerous needs to end, the idea that all asian people are incredibly smart and small needs to end, and this idea that white people can’t have racist remarks made to them needs to end. We are just trying to make something of ourselves and if one person ruins it, they ruin it for all of us, unfortunately. We as individuals should be judged by our own mistakes, and successes. Just because one of the gang bangers was black doesn’t mean all blacks are gang bangers. The mistake of one person should not reflect all the persons. If a asian person wants to eat burritos they should be able to eat burritos because they are a human and they have just as much of a right to eat burrito as a mexican person does. We are human, and there is no superior race and we really just need to stop worrying about what other people do. Have you worried about you? Have you tried to judge the person’s character and not their race? Because that’s what we need to worry about, is our own individual selfs.
We are all humans, we all make mistakes, and that is okay. It’s okay to be the race you are, it’s okay for employers not to have racial diversity, but what’s not okay is to judge someone based on someone else’s mistake, because of the color of their skin. The moment we realize that no two people are the same is the moment we realize that we don’t need to worry about the color of a person’s

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