The Role Of Racism In Today's Society

Racism is one of the world’s major issue today, a lot of people are still unaware how it’s still alive in the workforce, judicial system, and in our social lives. Racism has been around for many centuries and even though it was a huge factor back then, it’s still a major problem in today’s society. Racism started five hundred through one thousand years ago, it stem from slavery which is dated back thousands of years ago. Slavery was accomplished because racist believed that African Americans where inferior to white Europeans. White Europeans believed that Africans where not fully humans. When sailors began to explore Africa in the fifth teen century they found cities and empires as big as their own. They soon began to look at the Africans as

“In 1896 the Supreme Court sanctioned legal separation of the races by its ruling in H.A Plessy v. J.H. Ferguson, which held that separate but equal facilities did not violate the U.s Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment” Even though they were separated they still weren’t treated equal to the whites. They didn’t receive good education and new books. The Ku Klux Klan which was established in 1866, is a hate group formed in Tennessee then Klan didn’t like that the blacks were given rights.” The Klan struck violence against the blacks, republicans, and voters. At least 10 percent of the black legislators elected during the 1867-1868 constitutional conventions became victims of violence during Reconstruction, including seven who were killed. White Republicans (derided as “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags”) and black institutions such as schools and churches—symbols of black autonomy—were also targets for Klan attacks”. In the late eighteen hundreds the Klan branched out to all the southern states and had over four million members, they wore long white robes and mask to cover their faces. They burn down houses attacked and killed blacks, leaving there bodies on the