Racism


Racism is when a person believes his race to other races that he is superior and has the right to rule others. For example a Japanese person came to America and tried to help Japanese people become citizens of the United States. He learned how to speak English and learned how to read and write. They did not let the Japanese become the citizens of the United States. But they European were able to become citizens of the United States. Racism stated years ago and it is a problem till today.
In class we listened to songs and one of them was “The Revolution Will Not Be
Televised” spoke about how (black people) will not be on television where will it be? In class we read a short story called Recitatif. The story was about two kids going to foster care. They told you
that they were called salt and pepper but you didn’t know who was white and who was black. The whole book you had to guess who was who. You had to tell who was who with the Stereotypes. Stereotypes are based prejudices towards individuals and groups of people
according to their race.
In the short documentary we watched in class called “A girl like me” by Kiri Davis. There was a test with two dolls a white doll and a black doll. They ask the children questions such as which is the good doll, which is a ugly doll, which is the cute doll.
All the children pick the black doll for all the negative questions. They picked the black doll for the negative question because they grow up with the Stereotypes.

Jason lawyer