It is Impossible to Abolish Prejudice

It is Impossible to Abolish Prejudice

Prejudice is a terrible thing. As long as people still roam the Earth, prejudice will never

cease. How ever long that we the people stay here on Earth, that is how long prejudice

will last. We have tried to abolish prejudice, but it always comes back full force. People

take into consideration peoples race and ethnicity, and if it is different from theirs, then

that person probably is prejudice towards them in some way, shape, or form. Prejudice

has been with Mankind since the beginning of time. The easiest example of prejudice is

when it comes to black and white. Since blacks were slaves in the beginning of American

history, there has been a prejudice against the black race ever since. Some Whites figure

they are superior to all other races, especially blacks since they once were property to the

white man. Most American people realize that slavery was a very terrible thing that

happened in America's past. Yet there are still some racist people who believe that the

blacks should still be property or are less of a human. What are they thinking? Can they

not realize that they are humans just like you and I? Since slavery, there have been all

kinds of attempts to curve prejudice and abolish it; but as long as people are still here, it's

impossible. One way that America tried to stop prejudice was an act called Affirmative

Action. Not only did it not work, but also it is a form of prejudice all by itself.

Affirmative Action is a quota for job employment and also for school acceptance,

especially the acceptance in to colleges. It states that a certain amount of people from

each race can be allowed into a school. It also states that employers have to hire a certain

number of people from different races. Affirmative Action is so prejudice; I don't know

how it even was thought of. First of all, Affirmative Action discriminates against people

who are smarter than most of the applicants, but don't get the job or acceptance to college

because there is a quota for the school acceptance that had to be filled with people from

other races. Then there is the fact that your acceptance to a job or college depends

primarily on your race. That means right when you are born, you could be set back in life

just because of the race you were born with. Getting back to trying to abolish prejudice

brings up an interesting statement made by Vincent N. Parrillo, who said, "Although