An Essay on Racism

An Essay on Racism annon "...Everybody jumped on him, beat the hell out of him... Everybody was hitting him or kicking him. One guy was kicking at his spine. Another guy hitting on the side of the face... He was unconscious. He was bleeding.

Everybody had blood on their forearms. We ran back up the hill laughing...

He should have died... He lost so much blood he turned white. He got what he deserved" (Ridgeway 167.)

The skinheads who performed this random act of racial violence in 1990, had no reason to brutally beat their victim other than the fact that he was

Mexican (Ridgeway 167). Racism is objectively defined as any practice of ethnic discrimination or segregation. Fortunately, racial violence is steadily declining as the turn of the century approaches. Now a new form of racism, covert racism, has recently sprung from the pressures of political correctness. This new form of racism, although slowly declining, still shows signs of strong support (Piazza 86). Covert r...