Persuasive Essay On Racism

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To be truly free is something that many of us haven’t experienced. To truly have justice served to us is something that many of us haven’t experienced. To truly not feel boxed in and restricted in a supposedly “free” nation is something many of us haven’t experienced. Freedom is something America and its founding fathers stressed the importance of, but the question is everyone equally free? As stated by Martin Luther King Jr, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” He hoped for this many years ago, and his “dream” is still alive and yet to be seen. Schools program their kids to chant their freedom every single morning by reciting the words, “with liberty and justice for all”, but is every kid who is reciting it really free? In a country that stresses the importance of equality, the one thing that many people think we have, is the one major thing missing.
“Sometimes racism is so thick it is visible, other times it is less apparent, but always, day in and day out, we are breathing it in.” Dr.Tatum defines racism as a system of advantage based on race. It is embedded into our culture making it difficult to discern the truth from lies. While systemic racism gives advantages to some, it gives very demeaning disadvantages to others. Most dominant groups don’t think that they have any advantage to other races. They are oblivious to the fact that they are in fact privileged to some extent. They have white privilege which is concrete benefits of access to resources and social rewards, as well as the power to shape the norms and values of society that they receive consciously or unconsciously by the color or ...

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...b, or walk away. She had an individual thought or phenomenon that “we people talk too much”, while also classifying me as “we” and not an individual as if all people of color are in one “group”, but I myself am an individual.
“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.” In order to break off the chains of racism, people need to first start to change themselves before they start to change society. People need to educate themselves and see how their own judgments can change their perception, but first your ways of thinking must change. How? It starts by you making a change, and not following the moving walkway, and instead moving the other way with all your force, even as hard as it might be to take each step the opposite side no one else is going

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