Is Everyone A Little Bit Racist Analysis

Racism started many horrible circumstances in history from the holocaust to the Japanese concentration camps in the United States.Racism affects everyone directly or indirectly.No one is willing to approach the matter, but two articles are brave enough to be published to the public: Is Everyone A Little Bit Racist? by Nicolas Kristof, and Black Men and Public Spaces by Brent Staples. The unfairness of racism shackles down the person receiving the comment. They will feel really bad about themselves for something they can not control and will never be able to control for the whole rest of their life. Sadly, the news and media blows the fact of black people abusing drugs out of proportion, so everyone unintentionally becomes a little bit racist. Research done on medical practice indicates that “black and Hispanics treated by doctors for a broken leg received pain medication significantly less often than white patients”(Kristof, 1). This situation happens at every doctor’s office because black men …show more content…
Any black man “could cross in front of a car stopped at a traffic light and elicit the thunk, thunk, thunk of the driver--black, white male or female--hammering down the door locks”(Staples,1). If a white man crossed in front of the car in exactly the same place drivers will be weary, but not to the point of hammering down the door locks. All black men are already judged from the beginning to lead a life of crime, even if they have done nothing wrong their whole life. The feeling of insecurity near a black man streams from the riots black people started during the time of unfair treatment of black and white people. The white people pushed the black people into the corner of rebellion and the white people blame them for what happened. This is a sign of unfairness just because they were born into a dark skinned family it does not mean that they are automatically a dangerous