How Is Racism Beneficial

Racism all around the world is all based on peoples selfish ideas of what a person should look like. I was in middle school when I was in eighth grade and the racism there was so extreme that even when someone would say the color “white” or “black” they were labeled racist. In this essay I hope to show that racism is useless, that it is exaggerated, and that it can also be extremely hurtful and discouraging.

In public school in the USA, racism has become a big problem. Kids think that if the color “white” or “black” is even uttered that the speaker must be racist. It doesn’t matter if they were describing a car or something that is the color, but even the word has become racist. Racism, in this sense, is completely useless. The word “white” or the word “black” does not and usually is not intended to be racist, though sometimes it can be. …show more content…
Why are people so afraid of racism or of saying something racist? Racism has been exaggerated to such a degree that by trying not to be racist, people actually are labeled more racist. Kids try so hard to not say something racist that they act uncomfortable and awkward, which other people see as racist. The idea of racism is what is really hurtful not the things that people say accidentally. Most people don’t want to be racist but appear racist because of something that they accidentally said. How can the problem of racism be fixed of the “vocabulary of racist words” is so huge? Racism is greatly exaggerated, though it can still be extremely