Mississippi Burning: Racism, Prejudice And Discrimination

I’ve chosen this movie to speak about due to the fact that it hit very close to home for me. This movie shows how others were treated and still to this day are treated like nothing if you’re not them in certain parts of the United States. It shows how corrupt law enforcement was way back then and you still see it to this day. I honestly just don’t see the point of racism. It affects everyone around not just that person it’s being committed against. It can get to a point in someone’s life to where they just can’t take it anymore and just want the pain to end. I personally have experienced that, my best friend was a gay man whom I loved dearly. Just because he was gay they decided to brutally torture him. He had survived the attack but unfortunately four months later he had taken his own life. What I am trying to get at is that racism can and will kill a person.

There were three civil rights workers who were murdered all because they were getting ready to help the colored’s to register for voting. They, the Ku Klux Klan were so brutal to anyone who wasn’t white. They would burn the house of colored folk just for looking at them wrong. In some parts of the world it’s still happening just as it was and nothing has changed whatsoever. Looking down on someone for not being white or just because they are different is pathetic and downright disgusting. Honestly there is only one man who can past down judgement “God” and we should leave it up to Him. I ask myself how can we as humans treat others like garbage and still feel good within ourselves. I still have yet to come up with an answer to satisfy my hunger. Only one answer I can come up with is complete ignorance of oneself with no regard for others