A scapegoat is a person or thing made to bear the blame for the mistakes or sins of others. Scapegoats have been used all over the world and at all times, especially in the 1700’s, during slavery. For example, the Klu Klux Klan or KKK, used black people as their scapegoats because they didn’t like how the black people were getting rights and the Nazi’s used jews as their scapegoats because the Nazi’…showed first 75 words of 1389 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1389 total…still be the type of people that couldn’t take the blame so they would place the blame on someone else. Much of the hatred toward blacks from the KKK members in America can be charged to scapegoatism. Which is the act or practice of seeking out a scapegoat to lay the blame on. Scapegoats will be around forever and that means that innocent people will be blamed and in some cases will be killed.