Prejudice And Racism In Duluth In The 1920's

There are some things that I have noticed in the book that may still happen today but I do not think that they would be nearly as severe as they were back in the 1920’s when the lynching’s in Duluth happened or even before the 1920’s. The officer who interviewed Sandra about the rape just believed everything that she said without doing much investigation into if all her facts line up together. Today I think that something similar could happen but I think police would investigate it much more than they did back in Duluth, when the crime was committed. I think that this might happen today if the police officer who is conducting the interview with a young Caucasian woman, if the police officer has any form of prejudice or bias toward any specific …show more content…
Today we do not have segregated schools, bathrooms or drinking fountains. We are able to be come friends with people of a different race and even marry people of different races. Overall, we are able to marry who ever we want in this day and age. Opinions of race and racism are much different when you travel to places in the United States. For example, the south still can be rather racist depending where a person may visit or live. It also depends where a person grew up and what values a person grew up with, which may indicate if someone may be racist or not. Also just because someone lives in certain area that is known to be rather racist does not mean that the person will automatically be racist, we are to have our own values and …show more content…
However, it also brings tension and racism along with it. We all come from many different cultures, some being pretty similar and some being completely different. Sense we come from different cultures and races we all believe in different ideas and beliefs. For example, the Native Americans have a very different culture than some one who was born in Bemidji, Minnesota. There is a huge tension between some of the Native Americans and Caucasians people throughout Minnesota and the United States as a whole. The tension between the Native Americans and the Caucasians reminds me of what the African Americans might have felt in the 1800’s until 1900’s and even today. The African Americans just tried to maintain their culture and heritage throughout the rough times they went through when they were beaten and killed for just because of their skin color. The similarities and differences are numerous and may be different for different people depending on their standing on specific issues or the ways that they were raised. We all have different ways of thinking which means that we may see other differences or similarities that other people in our class may