Racism

Racism

Racism is an issue that has existed throughout human history. It is caused by people who believe that a person has predisposed stereotypes based solely on the color of their skin; it is an issue that is difficult to eradicate. Although there are many people who are racist, I was having a difficult time figuring out why this was. There are many different factors as to why a person could become intolerant of people with different skin colors, but the one that I felt was the most prominent factor contributing to this social disorder had to do with interference from a young age.

I am an individual who grew up in an environment where there was no class different as my mother encouraged me to hang around with every type of people and did not stop me from indulging into people with other classes. My grooming was the one where I was taught and knew that every one is equal in the world and everyone have the same right. Not only has this, but I was further being sent to a variety of summer camps and helping out in the community through homeless shelters showed me that everyone, no matter their social class or skin color was essentially the same. It was my grooming that I believe made me a person who did not thought about class differences like others. I had read about racism in my history textbook, but never thought that discrimination was still present in society today. I found out with a shock that this was not the case when my family went to visit some of our more distant cousins in Indiana only a few years ago. On my first and only trip there, when I was around 12 years old, was excited to meet these new cousins whom I'd never seen before. I had been to Indiana before, but was too small to observe or think about racial differences and racial discrimination in this modern world. As we moved on, the farm filled country side was intermixed with small towns and numerous churches here and there were no new sight to me. The deeper we traveled into the state I do distinctly remember occasionally passing churches with huge white crosses either in the front or off to the sides. At the time these crosses had no meaning to me but my sister had read about them ...