Racism 2
After reading the full definition of racism I’ve realized that I don’t really focus on one of the aspects of racism. Usually, when I think of racism I don’t think of it relating to the individual achievements of a person and it’s corrolation to their race. I think of it more often as one race thinking they’re better than another, because as Wasserman said, I think it’s the more prominent idea. This reminds me of something I just read for American History. Before the Civil War southerners didn’t want slavery to be abolished even if they didn’t own slaves. This was because most of them didn’t want the social gap between whites and blacks to lessen. When blacks earn their right to freedom the superiority white people have over them starts to deteriorate bit by bit. I think it’s pretty silly that people can base so much on just one physical trait. It’s not a big deal what color your skin is.
