Society tends to group people based on characteristics such as skin color, ancestry, cultural affiliation or history, and ethnic background; racism is the unequal treatment of people based on these categories. The stereotypes and prejudice people experience vary from person to person. Stereotypes and generalizations about African Americans have been around for a long time, but as the American society evolved so did the stereotypes. As soon as the importation of the African Americans began, the whites were seen as the superiority in the United States. A misconception of African Americans widely spread and was accepted. The Americans stated that the African Americans often had dispatched raging ways, were ignorant, lazy, and buffoonish; this
