Well Informed #2- Racism

Racism 2.0

Racism is a touchy subject that has been around forever that usually causes some sort of argument.

People around the world all belong to the same human race; they share the same tendencies to fear, domination, and subjugation. Hence, inevitably, racism is a world-wide issue. People have been unable to embrace and celebrate the uniqueness of the various ethnic groups.

"It always seemed like it was getting better, like our generation was going to be better than previous generations," says Aust, who participated in the CNN/KFF poll. "But the TV started telling us a different story, with all of these shootings by cops." She thinks the officers should be held accountable.

Mathew Cook did a great job of explaining the history of racism. He explains that racism started out as more of what class you were in that turned into race. For many years we fought for equal rights for all races and genders but yet still get divided into "categories" to prove we have more power over others. But it never used to be this way. Cooke also says that whites went through slavery also but blacks were at the bottom and poor whites were placed above them being treated more favorably and were promised to have a better life if they worked hard enough.

There was a poll done from CNN about how big of a problem racism is in our society today and only 43% of white people think its a problem compared to the 66% of black people who think there is a problem.