Persuasive Essay On Racism

Sometimes I ask myself, “what would it be like to live my life fighting off the discrimination of the world because of the color of my skin?”. Personally, I can not imagine living a life where I am treated differently and pushed to the outside by the images of society just because of the color of my skin. Every human being is unique in their own way, whether it be personality, looks or even a special talent, but the color of skin should not matter. Racism is a huge human rights issues in today 's time, it challenges the right of equality to all humans. Everyone has learned about slavery and the civil rights movement in a history class. Those events were resolved so therefore racism is not thought of as a common event in today’s time, but racial discrimination is …show more content…
This is a huge task in the eyes of most people, but there is 7.2 billion people in the world (U.S. News). If everyone joined together and took small steps, racism could come to an end. To do this people are going to have to work together, and show each other that they are all equal in their own unique way. People will have to step across the awkward boundaries that have been created by the stereotypes of the world and reach out to each other to become friends with one another, and show them that it is okay to be different and that it is okay to be friends with someone who is different. There is so many ways that people can do this, in every place. In school it could be sitting with a person at lunch, or talking in the hallway. At home and in the community it may just be waving hello, talking to someone on the street, or even inviting someone over for dinner. It does not have to be that someone is reaching out to a person they know but it could be a stranger and that could change a person 's life and start a domino effect and they start reaching out to others. A small step could change the