Racism, The Impediment of Progress

I was interested in this issue because I have noticed that our society constantly makes racist jokes by calling each other nigger, Negro, and other insults related to black people or people from other cultures, when we really don’t know how serious this problem is.

First of all racism is defined as the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributes to people simply on the basis of their race and that some racial groups are superiors to others. We have to understand that Racism is not only about black and white people, it also involves people from any culture in the world. This problem affects the society in such a level that it has been used as weapon by encouraging fear or hatred of others in situations of crisis.

An example of this kind of discrimination occurs in the US, where racism is a well known issue. Several actions such as police brutality against minorities and also the history of slavery in which slave labor by African Americans created a great amount of wealth in the United States and unfairly, this wealth was all taken by white people. We are all living beings, and we must be treated in the same way. The use of values such as respect and tolerance is the key for the end of this inhuman practice. If we want to progress it is important to learn to tolerate the people around us, even though their race, culture or social class. The world must be joined so we can face any other global issue.