Racism is a common theme in America, we see it in our everyday lives and even in the history of the country. Yet, Racism is still here and that’s not good. It has been in this country since the Colonial Era, when the colonists imported slaves and treated free blacks as less than what they were. We see racism in police brutality, often when white police officers are abusing their power and hurting or even killing black individuals. We saw more racism during the the Jim Crow era, between 1877 - 1960. In this time, Blacks and Whites were kept separate, and Whites included a number of privileges over the African Americans that lived alongside them. Racism is still seen today and should not be kept as a part of America.
Racism is in our history, when during the colonial era and the British occupied America then, the European Americans owned a lot of Black slaves and while there was a couple of free Blacks, they were discriminated by the other European Americans for the color of their skin. Often in Colonial America, Racism was very strong among European Americans and any other race. For example, the European Americans believed African Americans were inferior to them and that the Native Americans were savages. However, it was often said that Native Americans were even more civilized than the European American were. Not just that but a lot of decisions in America were often based around on the question of slavery or not. Many states were accepted into the Union if they were allowed to be slave states, or free states. There was a lot of Racism in the Jim Crow era, where everything in the Deep South was segregated, to keep White and Blacks separate. After the American Civil War, there was no need to have laws to keep the two races, Whites and Blacks, separate. This is because whites and blacks could work side by side, so long as Blacks understood that he is inferior to the whites. Even in the North, Blacks were often treated really badly too, sometimes even worse then they were treated in the South. Later on, Black people wanted more freedom, as well as the people of the North want to give Black people more freedom. This led to the South starting to panic, and then they created the first of the Jim Crow laws. Everybody was okay with this at first, even the Supreme Court, who said it was equal but fair. However, after a while, multiple people wanted to have equal rights again, but their just wasn’t much going on. However, Black people then started to get organized, and they were successful in taking out multiple laws and ending the Jim Crow segregation era. Also, Racism is still here today. We see it in police brutality, where White cops and shooting and killing people of color. When all of the times Police Violence were mapped out by Mapping Police Violence, they found that Black people were three times more likely to get killed than white people. Also in 2015, 30% of Black people that were killed, were unarmed. It’s also where you live that police brutality matters. That same website also showed us that were we lived in America, mattered. You are seven times more likely to get shot and killed in Oklahoma, than you are in Georgia. When comparing two places of similar population and percent of people that are non white (Buffalo, NY and Orlando, FL), they found that in Buffalo no people got shot from 2013-2016, while in Orlando there was 15. Plus no police officers are usually charged or convicted. Of the 351 cases in 2015, only 8 were charged and 5 were convicted. There is no excuse for all the violence in Racism. Things like this should not be happening because it puts a bad name on this country, and yet not much is done to change this fact. All in all, Racism is everywhere in this country, in its history, present, and we can only hope we don’t see it in the future. We see racism in police brutality today, and we racism in Jim Crow 60 years ago. Racism is basically intertwined with the foundation of this country.
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