Humanities+by+Taelor+T

Name: Taelor Thames Date: 8/05/09 Humanities

To me the way that I describe racism is it is a group of people that is not treated the same. I think that racism is still going on the reason why I say that is because when a group of black kids went to the pool the white people were making fun of them and saying mean thing about them. The things that they were saying was come on and get the kids they might take our kids or they might hurt our kids and they started to leave the pool. Also I say that racism is still going on because an African American man was sitting on a white man steps and the white man had shot the black for sitting on his steps. I think that these are examples of racism because of how white people act or treat white people when they come around them or their kids. I think that was not right for white people to treat blacks.

African Americans are still being discriminated against in public places. The reason why I say that is because a group of African American kids from Philly that went to a pool. When they went to the pool and the white people started to leave the pool saying mean things about them. They were saying things like let’s go they going to try and hurt our kids or do something to our kids or they might steal from us. I think that was so wrong for them to say that about the little kids. The kids only wanted to stay in the pool with all the other little kids and just be kids. Also this is parents that are saying these thing about the kids. I feel that the parents are supposed to set an example for how their kids are supposed to act.

African Americans can’t sit in some places without things happening to them. I say that because an African American man set down on the white man steps and the black man got shot. I think that was a bad thing to do all because of the person skin color. I don’t think that it should have been resolved in that way the white man could have asked the black man to move off of his step. I also think that even if the white man did ask him I don’t think that he would have moved. I say that because he might have been thinking about his rights as a free black African American man. These are some example of racism because the white man did not have the right away to shot that black man. Also because them white people did not have to say what they said to them kids. Or they did not have to do what they did to them kids and they are kids and they were parents they would not want someone else to say that to their kids.

This is why I think that racism is still a problem today. I think that the world would be a better place to live if there were not so much racism going on. I believe that racism is junket because it was not made up it’s just something that people started. Now African Americans have rights. One right that they have is the 14th amendment which granted citizenship to African Americans. Also they had the 15th amendment which prohibited discrimination in voting based on race or previous conditions of servitude. I don’t think that racism is a good thing because having people look at u in a way because your skin color is not the same as their. Or not being able to do things all because of the color of your skin.

I don’t think that u can put a stop to racism. I say that because no matter what u say or what u do there are going to be people that are going to look at you the wrong way because u don’t look like them or because your skin color is different. Myself I am not a races person because I would not want anyone to treat me like that. I really think that u cant stop it the only way that u can is if the people step in a put a stop to it and say ‘look just because some people don’t look the same as us or the skin color is not the same does not mean that they should be treated no different’. This is my feeling towards the racism that is going on in the world.