Police Prejudice And Racism In America

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This incident also made me feel sad because of how much it still resembles today's America. Even though racism is less apparent today and African American people have more rights and representation in our society, there is still underlying racism in many parts of our life, especially the courtroom. There are too many cases of police brutality where the murderer is still walking free and still has their job.
It is endearing to me that children will put apart their differences and help each other. This is proof that children can work and live together in a cosmopolitan society and there isn’t some innate issue that prevents a mixed society.

Racism is taught.
Douglass describes his experiences with religious slaveholders. The amount of discrepancy

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