How People Treat Black People

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I’ve been thinking a lot about racism and how people treat black people. I think we need to learn things about each other. We all need more love less hate because we don’t all know how to be nice or nicer. We all need to start thinking about a way to stop racism because people are committing suicide because of racism mostly young people. We need to start learning more and more things about each other, and be nicer not meaner because some people only know how to be mean because they only hang around people who were really mean those people were their influences.

How we can treat people the same, we can treat people the same by talking and listening to each other. To know that sometimes your influences are racist but you can change that. To know that it’s ok to be nice and kind to each other. There are opposite reasons, like being rude, talking behind someone’s back just about them because they are a different color. People think that all of that is ok but it’s really not. If someone talked behind your back would you like, no, because
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People have committed suicide because of racism, a 15 year old boy committed suicide after racist bullying name was Tharukshan Selvan. Martin Luther King Jr. says that we should be free and we should have justice in this country but we do we do but we don’t. In “Fire hits black churches” in the south is a sign of hate and that they would do that on a day to day bases. Knocking over tombstones in “Rash of anti-Semitism” shows me disrespect to families and their past family members. In “Rallying against racism and hate” a baseball player stands up and says racism is not ok and it really isn’t but after that people make fun of him. At school we can make a difference at home on the street at the store and you see someone being racist tell them stop

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