How Is Racism Still Relevant Today

America especially has struggles with reconciling “All men are created equal” with the injustice that has been done in the past, and how it still affects us today. Racism begins with a prejudice presupposition that ones racial/ethnic group is of a lower stature than ones own race. Which justifies the acts of oppression and feelings of superiority, and though we now longer have institutional racism, the system and aftermath of it are still felt, and propagated today, thus furthering the need for reconciliation. Tatum uses the definition: a “system of advantage based on race", though we no longer have institutionalized slavery or Jim Crow laws, there still is a pervading white privilege system that lingers in our society. Often, racism is viewed as just having hateful thoughts and opinions about another race, whereas this definition convicts us, to show that we can participate in racism by remaining passive by reaping the benefits, without confronting the injustice, whether we have “racists” …show more content…
Whether intentional or not, this invasive system has affected us, since it has caused us to see racial groups as separate entities and not of equal value or reliability, thus leaving the gap of reconciliation to grow and to be left unattended to. “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in