Cause Of Racism In America

The race that never seems to end; it’s racism. Racism is the belief that one race is superior to the others and puts those races down to boost their own races upward. The issue is sadly common in the world and it seems to have no signs of stopping anytime soon. When thought of individuals usually jump to the now and still classic case of the white Americans versus the black American. This form was instituted for years in America with Jim Crow laws and Black Codes the suppress the newly freed people. They created their own groups to attempt to stagger these oppressive laws such as the NAACP. Nowadays we still have the oppression and segregation, but more on a social level then the law level anymore. Today currently we have some discrimination …show more content…
We could sit down and talk to everyone and realize we all are people in this world and why should we make it harder for anyone else to exist like how Huck realized Jim was a person too (4). Everyone is judging people based on their skin, voice, gender, sexual preference, and race. Somewhere we are judging and some of them are non impactful judgments, but a lot are harmful like “niggers” being worth less than the average human (4), or certain races being dumber than the others. This causes racism because we need these fierce judgments of each other causing people to split apart from each other and fight each other out of fear of the unknown and how to deal with the people they are judging against. Usually when confronting things that are new or unknown is when people tend to panic or shove away everyone else connected to those branches causing little islands of races and cultures, and yet some attempt to bridge the isles and connect and learn about each other because we have nothing to fear, but fear itself. We can learn about one another and overcome the adversity in our way. Unconsciously people judge even if they feel they are non judgmental people somewhere deep down in their kingdom of hearts the shadow, the true self judges and conspires against those not similar to people due to groups favoring the ones they are in more so than any other due to the increase of propinquity within the group due to them just being there. People …show more content…
Subjects of the racist acts suffer fear and discrimination from those individuals which can lead to complications within their lives. The children that grow up in the environment of racism develop into little orbs of hatred or become the opposite and become more sympathetic towards those “suppressed” races akin to Huckleberry (4). Today a lot of areas are still racist and plowing along in today’s southern states with segregated schools even today. Back in Twain’s time most of the stuff in the south was violently segregated which led to Brown vs. The Board of Education and other cases like Plessy vs. Ferguson. All of these dealt with segregation and how we were going to handle the “Africans” in different sectors of the United States. Detrimental effects as well as positives come out of racism. Positives come out as laws attempting to mitigate the negative effects of it all while the negatives come out as suppression and hate crimes against specific races, cultures, and beliefs. This will lead to the alienation of cultures and maybe even eventually to the destruction of cultures that do not decide to assimilate to the ideals of America in this case. The destructive tendencies of racism can cause individuals to rise up and fight against all of the injustices of the crimes and atrocities committed around them to become heroes for the people around them. People