Racism

INTRODUCTION

Racism is everywhere. You can’t go anywhere in today’s society without bumping into some form of racism. Race is a social group based on the physical differences of skin tone, hair texture, and facial features. The differences contribute to our uniqueness and humanity. Because people can be grouped by any number of physical differences (height, foot size, resistance to certain diseases), race is no more significant than any other trait. But that is so far from the truth. In today’s society people of different races get abused phsycally, verbally, emotionally and so on. If someone is of a different race than you, that gives you no right to put them down, hurt them, or make them feel lesser than you, nor do they have the right to do that to you.

WHAT IS RACISM?

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English racism is defined as: 1. A belief in the superiority of a particular race; predjudice based on this. 2. Antagonism towards another race. As s...