Kenshin Siy 10B#29
PANDA [pandas are black, white and come from Asia]
Racism is evident during the time of the American industrial revolution when slaves, who were mostly the African-Americans, would be forced to work either outside in fields picking cotton plants or inside factories for countless hours and be paid a single penny or even none at all. The blacks would work for long hours and be harshly beaten up if they fail to do their job properly. During this time, the whites would call the blacks "niggers" and even racially segregate them from the rest of the society. Also during the 17th/18th century through the transatlantic slave trades, colored people such as blacks would be sold to white people as slaves for one's …show more content…
Like how white people would treat the blacks with brutality a few centuries ago, the whites today would too treat the blacks with brutality not through physical abuse, though it is still present today, but through the jokes and the bullying that the blacks go through today in some western countries such as the U.S. Racism is present today when colleges would ask for ones racial identity. Though it does not apply solely on blacks and whites, since it also affects people belonging in the Asian race.
An example of racism today would be the media setting a stereotype on a certain race, advertising things such that all people born under African descent like to eat fried chicken and watermelons, steal and can run fast, and people of Asian descent like to eat rice daily, know kung fu and are all from one place, China.
Racism can also be found in politics today, where-in people hold race-based smear campaigns against people such as the, Barack Obama, who was the first African American President, Kamala Harris, the first African American and the first Asian American attorney general in California, and Sonia Sotomayor, who was nominated the first Latina in the Supreme …show more content…
She has been noted as tough on crime and has had the parents of truant children arrested. She even defeated Republican rival Steve Cooley to become California Attorney General in 2010. One must think she gets racial slurs thrown at her, all because she is a successful minority in politics. And Sonia Sotomayor, who was elected the first Latina on the Supreme Court of August 2009. She had said that she was a "wise Latina" with unique insight in a speech years earlier, and yet political enemies of Obama argued that she claimed she was "wiser" than her white counterparts. Clearly, Sotomayor did not mean what the others thought she meant as she only stated that she was a "wise Latina" and not saying "wiser than all of you blacks and whites" Latina.
Does racism still take place in America? Yes, in fact, it is found almost all over the world nowadays. As for America, although many different people
PANDA [pandas are black, white and come from Asia]
Racism is evident during the time of the American industrial revolution when slaves, who were mostly the African-Americans, would be forced to work either outside in fields picking cotton plants or inside factories for countless hours and be paid a single penny or even none at all. The blacks would work for long hours and be harshly beaten up if they fail to do their job properly. During this time, the whites would call the blacks "niggers" and even racially segregate them from the rest of the society. Also during the 17th/18th century through the transatlantic slave trades, colored people such as blacks would be sold to white people as slaves for one's …show more content…
Like how white people would treat the blacks with brutality a few centuries ago, the whites today would too treat the blacks with brutality not through physical abuse, though it is still present today, but through the jokes and the bullying that the blacks go through today in some western countries such as the U.S. Racism is present today when colleges would ask for ones racial identity. Though it does not apply solely on blacks and whites, since it also affects people belonging in the Asian race.
An example of racism today would be the media setting a stereotype on a certain race, advertising things such that all people born under African descent like to eat fried chicken and watermelons, steal and can run fast, and people of Asian descent like to eat rice daily, know kung fu and are all from one place, China.
Racism can also be found in politics today, where-in people hold race-based smear campaigns against people such as the, Barack Obama, who was the first African American President, Kamala Harris, the first African American and the first Asian American attorney general in California, and Sonia Sotomayor, who was nominated the first Latina in the Supreme …show more content…
She has been noted as tough on crime and has had the parents of truant children arrested. She even defeated Republican rival Steve Cooley to become California Attorney General in 2010. One must think she gets racial slurs thrown at her, all because she is a successful minority in politics. And Sonia Sotomayor, who was elected the first Latina on the Supreme Court of August 2009. She had said that she was a "wise Latina" with unique insight in a speech years earlier, and yet political enemies of Obama argued that she claimed she was "wiser" than her white counterparts. Clearly, Sotomayor did not mean what the others thought she meant as she only stated that she was a "wise Latina" and not saying "wiser than all of you blacks and whites" Latina.
Does racism still take place in America? Yes, in fact, it is found almost all over the world nowadays. As for America, although many different people