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RACISM
Date Submitted: 12/21/2004 21:04:31
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 3 pages (753 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 3 pages (753 words)
Institutional Racism in American
Society
"Racist" and "racism" are provocative words
in American society. To some, these words
have reached the level of curse words in
their offensiveness. Yet, "racist" and "racism"
are descriptive words of a reality that
cannot be denied. African Americans,
Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and
Asian Americans (people-of-color) live daily
with the effects of both institutional and
individual racism.
Race issues are so fundamental in American
society that they seem almost
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the fact that we are all
HUMAN. This is yet another concept that we must seek to fully understand before we can consider
ourselves ready to attain true peace.
Conclusion
As you can see racial discrimination is, quite simply, the result of ignorance. Historically, people
automatically assumed that their race was superior. Not bothering to learn more about the races they
despised, they began to harbor grudges against them, inventing reasons why other races were
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