Thursday, December 17, 2009
week 17
i know racism is still present today no matter how hard we try to say racism is a thing of the past. i know personally that racism is still alive because of the jokes people tell each other, some jokes involve demeaning people just by their race. i have take then Harvard test thing before for AP psychology it told me that i have a slight tendency toward white people , i had to do 2 other tests that i forgot the results of. i personally don't see myself as a racist person but i guess i have been taught by society to judge people of other races even if i don't know them. though racism is still apparent in the world today i think it is a lot less then earl yer years. we have all heard the story of Emmit Till who was brutally killed and his body dumped in a river all because of racial tensions, today you don't hear of such extreme cases of racism yet it still has an effect on our society that few realize.
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There is nothing wrong with having a slight preference towards your own race, especially since that is what we are trained to think. I think we've made a lot of progress since 40 or 50 years ago. But I'm curious about the emmitt till story because I've never heard of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that society has come a long way to fix racism, but there is still a lot of work that need to be done.
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