Let's End the Pain and Suffering of Racism

Does this fit feel alright? Dennis asked the little boy, he nodded. Thank you, said his mother, come on Michael lets go the check out. Dennis got up and headed back to his post. “Dennis to the manager’s office,” came on the shoes store intercom. Dennis sighed and headed to Mr. Bleaks office. Good evening Mr. Bleak, Dennis greeted his boss. Hello Dennis, take a seat. I called you in here to let to tell you now that today is your last day working here; I’m going to have to let you go. What, why?! Because you are stealing shoes, said Mr. Bleak. No, I never stolen anything, I swear. No, use lying Dennis, you’re lucky I’m not calling the cops. Just collect your things and get out of my store. I can’t believe this, Dennis muttered on his way out. The next day Dennis called his coworker Wendy to ask if she knew why he was accused of stealing the shoes. She said she didn’t know of anyone else being accused. When she asked Mr. Bleak about it he just said “that’s how those people are.”

What, in America, and the rest of the world, is one of the biggest causes of genocide, oppression, slavery, violence, and other forms of human suffering? What can cause someone to hate another human just by looking at them, something that causes pure hatred, with no cause, immediately? That disease is racism. From mass murders to terrorism, there isn’t much that has caused more pain than racism. If we could live in a world without racism, it would without a doubt be a more peaceful world.

Racism is such an atrocity that many even deny that is even is a problem in modern society. Despite what they may believe racism does still exist in America, it didn’t die in the sixties. In fact, in a recent Gallup poll almost half 42% don’t believe that there is raci...

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... to death. To the people who believe that I must inform you that you greatly underestimate that power of modern technology. With the power of computer humans will easily be able to survive and prosper, even if everyone’s blind.

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