The Changes of Racism in America
Racism has always been around, there has never really been a time where racism hasn’t existed. Racist people in America really started when white people came to America, but the racism wasn’t towards the black people at this time it was to the Native Americans. White men were just downright evil to the Indians, they would take away their native land, their animals, and even their women. Racism started with black people when they first arrived on a ship from Africa, we made them our slaves to begin with, and treated them like they were just animals that couldn’t be treated as a human. White men would whip, beat, or even kill a black man if they didn’t do what they said. Blacks would have to work long days in the hot sun with no pay at all. It wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln became president that slavery ended with the civil war. Racism was really bad in the 1930s, white women would often claim black men rapping them even though the black man was innocent. They would be thrown in prison for being false accused, but because they were black, the jury and the judge would believe the white women. A specific case is the Scottsboro boys, there was 9 black young men riding a train in Alabama, and they were …show more content…
There is a movement today called black lives matter, this movement started because too many innocent black men were being killed by white cops. Less than a month ago a 17 year old boy in Rockledge, Florida was shot down by white police. Even though white cops are killing black people for no reason racism has gotten much better since the 1930s, in the 1900s black and white people couldn’t go to the same school, drink the same water fountains, or even use the same bathrooms. Today in 2016 we are almost all friends, yes there is racist people but it is definitely way better than the
Racism has always been around, there has never really been a time where racism hasn’t existed. Racist people in America really started when white people came to America, but the racism wasn’t towards the black people at this time it was to the Native Americans. White men were just downright evil to the Indians, they would take away their native land, their animals, and even their women. Racism started with black people when they first arrived on a ship from Africa, we made them our slaves to begin with, and treated them like they were just animals that couldn’t be treated as a human. White men would whip, beat, or even kill a black man if they didn’t do what they said. Blacks would have to work long days in the hot sun with no pay at all. It wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln became president that slavery ended with the civil war. Racism was really bad in the 1930s, white women would often claim black men rapping them even though the black man was innocent. They would be thrown in prison for being false accused, but because they were black, the jury and the judge would believe the white women. A specific case is the Scottsboro boys, there was 9 black young men riding a train in Alabama, and they were …show more content…
There is a movement today called black lives matter, this movement started because too many innocent black men were being killed by white cops. Less than a month ago a 17 year old boy in Rockledge, Florida was shot down by white police. Even though white cops are killing black people for no reason racism has gotten much better since the 1930s, in the 1900s black and white people couldn’t go to the same school, drink the same water fountains, or even use the same bathrooms. Today in 2016 we are almost all friends, yes there is racist people but it is definitely way better than the