Racism
: is a lot of things some examples are; prejudice, narrow-mindedness, intolerance, sexism, bigotry, injustice, and bias. These things have been going on for hundreds and thousands of years and they need to be stopped before they get any more out of hand.
Prejudice: strictly defined, is a performed and unsubstantiated judgment or opinion about an individual or a group, either favorable or unfavorable or hostile attitude toward other people based on their membership in another social or ethnic group.
Unfortunately, the color of a persons skin can be the deciding factor in the way a person lives their life. Because of prejudice, some of the time people with different colors of skin will be ...
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a way of thinking and behaving as though one sex is better than the other; especially, unfair treatment of women by men, caused by thinking this way. You should not treat someone different because of their sex. Woman and men are equal in most ways and can usually complete the same tasks equally well.
Narrow-mindedness: is another form of racism. Narrow-mindedness is like when somebody predetermines by the way you dress, your race, your religion, social class, etc. that you are going to act or behave in a certain way without giving you the chance to prove yourself. When I enter stores or restaurants, because of my young age or baggy clothing people automatically assume that I am a trouble maker or a juvenile delinquent. Without ever talking or meeting me. Without meeting a person you can not judge any person.
Race Separation: South Africa is unique from other multiracial countries around the world. Instead of seeking equal rights for all their citizens they pursue a policy which ...
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coming.* The Nation of Islam publishes The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, they do not list an author. Its purpose it to prove that the slave trade was dominated by Jews. Another Islam, Louis Farrakhan, told an audience in Harlem that Jews "are the most organized, rich and powerful people, not only in America, but in the world" and told them they were "plotting against us even as we speak". It makes me made that this Nation of Islam, who is no better than any other racist organization and I wonder how as a people that have had to suffer through racism and discrimination how they can be so racist themselves. I also wonder how so many people have the same mind set (over 30,000 ...
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