Persuasive Speech On Racism In The United States

Introduction: Do you ever get that feeling you’re not being treated equally, as if the odd aren’t in your favor? Do you ever say “This isn’t fair?” Racism is still prevalent in today’s society, we see it almost every day. Walking past your television and reading “Cop guns down unarmed Black/Latino/Asian.” It’s hard to think that it used to be worse, but it was. Imagine living every day being oppressed, not being able to use most bathrooms, not getting an equal education. Building you up to fail. That’s how it used to be for most races other than whites. If you were black, and looked a white female the wrong way. Dead. Graduating high school for a Latino? Nearly Impossible. Wanna come to the United States and you’re asian? Banned. Wanted to practice your religion? Live on your own land as a native american? Nope we need that land and nope that religion is for “heathens.” That …show more content…
Body Paragraph I: Before the civil rights movements both Native Americans and Blacks lived primarily in slums, and ghettos. Most Native American reservations weren’t kept well and the Natives who left the res were left with next to no money and what money they had was spent on alcohol. That’s how it started out for Black people also, when slavery was abolished most were still kept on their farm because of their owner tricking them. Imagine feeling that, being freed from a lifetime of hard labor just to be tricked into working more. That isn’t fair. They were still forced to live in terrible conditions, and those who left didn’t really have a place to go due to red lining and racism still being a common thing. Red lining mostly only happened to black families because they were considered “dangerous.” Those who left eventually found their ways to harlem or other neighborhoods. Some of the things that kept the Blacks and Indians in these