Argument Against Racism

Racism is a big part of our society as a whole. For surely we know that it is somewhat getting better but not at the rate everyone would like it too. We need to step up and make our world a better place for every kind of ethnic group out there. Regardless of the fact there are a bunch of videos and articles that help support people against anti-racism and will help everyone out. This paper will include two different sources from videos explaining a whole variety of racial issues, also how they connect with the readings that we have had in class. Also a speaker that I will never forget and how he changed my life drastically. Let the fun begin! The first video is a speaker named Maggie Potapchuk who is talking about racism and how it plays a role in …show more content…
If you work to achieve peace you should move to your left, and if you work to achieve justice move to the right. She asked a lot more questions like that to see where people ended up. She did this activity to prove to people that if everyone works together we can get past anything. In this specific case she was talking about racism. We as a whole can all address racism better if we work together as a team, as a country. She talked about institutional racism and how the City of Seattle the mayor realized that it seemed like in the white neighborhoods they were getting better services compared to the other races neighborhoods. What the mayor of Seattle wanted to eliminate the institutional racism in Seattle. They ended creating the Race and Social Justice Round Table and they were mainly looking at educational equity but they also looked at supporting a process of mutual accountability for ending racial inequality. She ended the video by saying that we are the ones that have to act up on this matter to stop racism. The one story in the book that I found that related to her speech was Barack Like Me reading on page 139 to 142. The reading tells about Barack Obama and how he is our first Asian American