Why Racism and Prejudice Will Make You Question Everything
No one is born racist, it’s taught by others. Through history there have been many accounts of violence due to racism. There is MLK’s assassination, Emmett TIll, many and more. Is it still a problem? When did it start? Who started it? Keep reading to get informed. When did racism and prejudice become a major problem?
Racism has always been a problem. It became a major problem in the colonial era. That was when Europeans were coming over from Europe to settle in the United States.. This is the time when slaves were still legal to own. There were a lot of issues in the 17th century with racism and ethnic discrimination. There were Indian wars, segregation, and even internment camps(Racism in THe U.S.). An internment camp is like a concentration camp. During World War II, over 120,000 Japanese were falsely imprisoned for being the enemy. The only similarity they had was looking like the enemy. This wasn’t an act of war, it was being prejudice. The U.S thought because they looked like the enemy, they were the enemy, which was not the case(Steve). …show more content…
Many people think that slavery has been around as long as humans. That people have always hated other people because they were different. Whether it be skin color, accent, language, or religion, people have always been prejudiced as far as they’re concerned. After the Civil War, Senator James Doolittle of Wisconsin stated that “It is the instinct of our nature impelled us to sort people into racial categories”. Over a century later in 1998, Charles Murray published The Bell Curve. This book is a whopping 800 pages of statistics that purported, or claimed, to prove innate racial differences in
No one is born racist, it’s taught by others. Through history there have been many accounts of violence due to racism. There is MLK’s assassination, Emmett TIll, many and more. Is it still a problem? When did it start? Who started it? Keep reading to get informed. When did racism and prejudice become a major problem?
Racism has always been a problem. It became a major problem in the colonial era. That was when Europeans were coming over from Europe to settle in the United States.. This is the time when slaves were still legal to own. There were a lot of issues in the 17th century with racism and ethnic discrimination. There were Indian wars, segregation, and even internment camps(Racism in THe U.S.). An internment camp is like a concentration camp. During World War II, over 120,000 Japanese were falsely imprisoned for being the enemy. The only similarity they had was looking like the enemy. This wasn’t an act of war, it was being prejudice. The U.S thought because they looked like the enemy, they were the enemy, which was not the case(Steve). …show more content…
Many people think that slavery has been around as long as humans. That people have always hated other people because they were different. Whether it be skin color, accent, language, or religion, people have always been prejudiced as far as they’re concerned. After the Civil War, Senator James Doolittle of Wisconsin stated that “It is the instinct of our nature impelled us to sort people into racial categories”. Over a century later in 1998, Charles Murray published The Bell Curve. This book is a whopping 800 pages of statistics that purported, or claimed, to prove innate racial differences in