Ronald Reagan's Argument Against Racism

February 26th 2012 7:09 pm EST, 17 year old trayvon martin a resident of sanford georgia a student at krop high school walked away from a nearby gas station and down the street. Little did he nor the shooter know the following events that would unfold would take a economic and emotional toll on race relations and would turn the country upside down in the following weeks and years. Ronald Reagan once said, “‘We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters at all times we must teach tolerance and denounce racism…’” (ADD CITATION). Ronald reagan a controversial president lived through the hard times of the civil rights movement and experienced the turmoil the nation experienced during that time. In present day america the people are experiencing a similar time of turmoil and racial division in our nation. America needs another martin luther king another abe lincoln or another ronald …show more content…
With race relations still on edge it seems as a nation the us has backtracked and a problem the united states mostly had solved has reemerged and been brought back up. Most of the police who are responsible for the deaths of unarmed black men are not racist and some are minorities themselves. The public must ask itself “why do these unnecessary deaths of innocent lives occur and why are they occurring. The question can simply be answered with implicit bias a term which has sparked in mainstream media. Implicit bias is the opposite of explicit bias which is a prejudice or racist belief endorsed on a conscious level. Implicit bias is an attitude or belief a person makes based on one 's appearance or ones stereotypes that base a person 's opinion or the way a person treats another. While implicit bias is a generally new topic it does make sense to most that america for the most part is really that