Extreme Forms Of Racism

Racism is a belief that determines one race is superior to another racial group. This belief can be seen in the way that police could care less when roughing up a black teenage girl at a pool party because he knows he cannot be touched. This can be proven in the way that the man who killed Trayvon Martin, a teenager who was shot in cold blood, walked away free with barely a slap on the wrist. This statement is valid in the way that my ancestors were shipped, traded and slaughtered like cattle because of the color of their skin. Racism still exist in the way that a white man can slaughter and ruin many black lives and be represented in the media as a “teenager with problems” or having had “a rough home life”. Yet a young black man is shot down for just stealing cigarettes and the media present him as a thug, a criminal who was going to die anyway. The statement “racism still exist” is valid in the way a police can use excessive force on a teenage girl who simply would not

An example of a much more extreme form of racism is racial profiling when it comes to police officers. If someone commit a crime and they have no suspect all a officer has to do it pick a random black person on the street and use them.
The only excuse they have to use is “you fit the description of a suspect” and you could put in holding until something proves you innocent. Innocent black people end up in jail for no reason because they need the perfect scapegoat to blame a crime on. When you are put in holding there is nothing you can’t do to protect yourself. Look at Sandra Bland, the most recent in black lives that were lost because of police brutality. She never committed a crime, she was an activist and end up in jail because of a minor traffic violation. The result of that was her untimely demise and the police trying to cover up her death so they wouldn’t look like the monsters they truly