Every day there is a baby born with either a different colored skin, squinched eyes, or with deformity. Due to these or other reasons, many parents decide to give up their child or make them feel inferior which makes it an act of discrimination. Kate Chopin’s short story, “Desiree’s Baby,” is a story mainly about racism, and it talks about how racial prejudice can affect a child.
Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another or defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary as “poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race.” Racism may be described as the hatred of one person by another because of skin color, language, culture, place of birth or anything that reveals the basic nature of that…