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Racism In America's Black Lives Matter

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Racism has been apart of history in every civilization, to think America currently does not have issues with racists is naive. On a daily basis people are being segregated because of the color of their skin. It is hard to believe that someone would have prejudice views towards certain races, yet this terrible occurrence happens daily. Whether you are from mexican or native american backgrounds, in the eyes of some people you are considered a minority. It is troubling for me know that people everyday are going through struggles because of their race, I don’t think white people understand how lucky they are that they are white, the hardships that black persons have to go through would have crushed many of the white people I know. In America, …show more content…

They want to reduce the violence that is done to blacks from racists. Movements like this is what america needs to promote and have a better future. The black lives matter movement has improved the overall violence wrongfully admitted to blacks (Engler, 2016). This could be due to the fact that the movement has brought out so much attention that racists are now trying to hide the fact that they are racist. A recent assignment that was assigned in my American Law class was to write what races or things you are prejudice towards, and when the papers were read almost everyone said they didn’t have prejudice views towards a certain race. This could be true, but is likely untrue. Almost everyone has a certain prejudice towards something, even if we try and believe we have equal feelings towards all races, it's impossible. This is why the society and world we live in today is nauseous (Wan, …show more content…

The election concluded with the election of a racist president, Donald Trump. Trump has had a history of racism, dating back to the 70’s and 80’s where Trump had problems with claims and comments that were targeted towards the black community (Leonhardt, 2018). Yet he was still elected president of the United States of America. This is where Americans aren’t afraid of showing that they are racist, the voting system allows Americans to have an anonymous vote so they wouldn’t be judged on how they voted. If the voting system wasn't anonymous i'm sure the election would have been different. This is the opposite of what was needed for the fight for equality. We now have a leader that is against the fight for equality, and the worst part about it is that he doesn't think he is a racist. This is related to the American Law assignment that I had to do, no one thinks they are prejudice they just

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