FREE ESSAY ON RACISM

RACISM

Racism is a social problem that has occurred many years ago and it has passed through many
phases. The oldest and most harmful of all is slavery. As we see from the "The problem of
slavery and persecution' with the discovery of the New World, the institution of slavery
grew to proportions greater than had been previously conceived. In 16th century Peru, to
counter the inhuman system of slavery in the colonial economic systems finally introduced
the great basic debate concerning the question of human rights. Important personalities
such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist pastor and Nobel laureate, who led the struggle
for civil rights in the United States until his assassination in1968. Also in South
Africa in the 1980s, Desmond Tutu, Anglican archbishop and Nobel laureate, exemplified a
continuing Christian straggle for human wrights. (The problem of slavery and persecution
1)
Racism as a phenomenon has risen through opposite opinions and many times intense
confrontation as far as blacks' people social standing is concerned. There are people who
support the human right of everyone being the same. Many examples of how the black people
have been treated through the years by whites have made the people, including me, support
antiracism. I strongly believe that black people all over the world have the same rights
because above all they are human. All black people must have the right to free
expressions and equal treatment with white people. On the other hand there are some
people who believe that black people are thought to represent a society of a lower rank
than white.
As we read by Braham Peter, Rattansi Ali and Skellington Richard in Racism and
Antiracism: People's equality is an issue with during the years has concerned worldwide
governments. Many lows came up in order to protect black peoples rights.For example
during the 1980s the black population of Britain reached over two million people, of whom
about half were born in this country: a largely settled population of families for whom
migration was mostly a memory of some fifteen, twenty or more years earlier. The
consolidation of communities continued, with concentration of ethnic residence in
familiar areas absorbing most of the population growth, rather than a substantial
movement out to other areas. Hardly any black and Asian people looking for jobs were new
to the country; jobseekers no longer had to contend with problems stemming from their
recent arrival. Laws against discrimination in employment had been in place for over a
decade. Against this background of stability and formal rights, Britons from the minority
ethnic groups were expectant that they could take up the same opportunities in employment
as enjoyed by people. All the evidence suggests that there have been changes in the
employment patterns of black people over the last decade, but that they are not
converging with the employment patterns of whites, and that earlier injustices and
imbalances continue to set the boundaries within which change can occur. (Racism and
Antiracism, 58).
According to Goldeberg David Theo in Racist Culture along with the lows many programs
have been made even though the absence of available opportunities such as preferential
treatment programs for college admissions or hiring and promotion seem a modest means,
one among many necessary not simply to integration but to advancing an incorporative
politics. Such programs have served to draw those voices into academic and professional
positions that have tended to be silence by their exclusion, voices that mostly proved
resistant to mainstream appropriation.
(Racism Culture, 232).
On the other side there many people who believe in racism and some of them are even
members of organization against black Racism is a social problem that has occurred many
years ago and it has passed through many phases. The oldest and most harmful of all is
slavery. As we see from the "The problem of slavery and persecution' with the discovery
of the New World, the institution of slavery grew to proportions greater than had been
previously conceived. In 16th century Peru, to counter the inhuman system of slavery in
the colonial economic systems finally introduced the great basic debate concerning the
question of human rights. Important personalities such as Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Baptist pastor and Nobel laureate, who led the struggle for civil rights in the United
States until his assassination in1968. Also in South Africa in the 1980s, Desmond Tutu,
Anglican archbishop and Nobel laureate, exemplified a continuing Christian straggle for
human wrights. (The problem of slavery and persecution 1)
Racism as a phenomenon has risen through opposite opinions and many times intense
confrontation as far as blacks' people social standing is concerned. There are people who
support the human right of everyone being the same. Many examples of how the black people
have been treated through the years by whites have made the people, including me, support
antiracism. I strongly believe that black people all over the world have the same rights
because above all they are human. All black people must have the right to free
expressions and equal treatment with white people. On the other hand there are some
people who believe that black people are thought to represent a society of a lower rank
than white.
As we read by Braham Peter, Rattansi Ali and Skellington Richard in Racism and
Antiracism: People's equality is an issue with during the years has concerned worldwide
governments. Many lows came up in order to protect black peoples rights.For example
during the 1980s the black population of Britain reached over two million people, of whom
about half were born in this country: a largely settled population of families for whom
migration was mostly a memory of some fifteen, twenty or more years earlier. The
consolidation of communities continued, with concentration of ethnic residence in
familiar areas absorbing most of the population growth, rather than a substantial
movement out to other areas. Hardly any black and Asian people looking for jobs were new
to the country; jobseekers no longer had to contend with problems stemming from their
recent arrival. Laws against discrimination in employment had been in place for over a
decade. Against this background of stability and formal rights, Britons from the minority
ethnic groups were expectant that they could take up the same opportunities in employment
as enjoyed by people. All the evidence suggests that there have been changes in the
employment patterns of black people over the last decade, but that they are not
converging with the employment patterns of whites, and that earlier injustices and
imbalances continue to set the boundaries within which change can occur. (Racism and
Antiracism, 58).
According to Goldeberg David Theo in Racist Culture along with the lows many programs
have been made even though the absence of available opportunities such as preferential
treatment programs for college admissions or hiring and promotion seem a modest means,
one among many necessary not simply to integration but to advancing an incorporative
politics. Such programs have served to draw those voices into academic and professional
positions that have tended to be silence by their exclusion, voices that mostly proved
resistant to mainstream appropriation.
(Racism Culture, 232).
people such as Ku Klux Klan.
As it stated in encyclopedia Britannica in Ku Klux Klan. In the summer of 1867, the Klan
was structured into the ''Invisible Empire of the South'' at a convention in Nashville,
Tenn., attended by delegates from former Confederate states. The group was president over
by a grang wizard (Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest is believed to have
been the first grand wizard) and a descending hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans,
and grand cyclopses. Dressed in robes and sheets designed to frighten superstitious
blacks and to prevent identification by the occupying federal troops, Klansmen whipped
and killed freedmen and their white supporters in nighttime raids. A similar organization
the Nights of White Camelia begun in Louisiana in 1867. (Ku Klux Klan ,1)
Although these are organizations are very extreme racism is a phenomenon that appears
even our days with other forms in every day life. As I already mentioned the last decades
many lows have been made in order to support black peoples right yet most of the lows
never applied because of white peoples racism and interests. 
Braham Peter in Racism and Antiracism writes that, for example, many white British
peoples ideas about immigrant workers were classically racists (because they rested on
the assumptions that whites were naturally preferable) but were also economically
instrumental. Dark skinned immigrants were seen as undesirable but necessary, in their
allotted place, and it was not just employers who took this view. Governments, both
Labour and Conservative, in the 1940s and 1950s wrestled, secretly at first but openly
later, with the impossible equation of ensuring labour supply, supporting free movement
within the Commonwealth, and discouraging black settlement. (Racism and Antiracism, 48).
Another sector in which we see racism is the labour market. In that field blacks people
experience in the past decade has been mass unemployment their overall jobless rate
continued to climb during the early 1980s, passing the 20 per cent mark in 1983 and not
falling below it again until 1987. As explained above, the rise in unemployment among
minority workers is always greater than among the rest of the workforce, and Figure 2
shows that it happened during this period. Separate comparisons of unemployment rate
among people with particular levels of qualifications have shown that the ethnic
differences cannot be explained by educational differences - in fact the unemployment gap
between whites and minorities is greater among people with higher qualifications.
Finally to conclude with, in my opinion people should adjust their actions to the law
that protects human rights which refers to the respect of human dignity and beliefs
despite their color. As Voltairos, a great representative of French Enlightenment, said:
"I do not agree with not even one word of what you say but I will always defend -even
with the price of my life-your right to freely say what you believe in".
Bibliography
"The Problem Of Slavery And Persecution". Encyclopedia Britannica 
Goldberg, Theo David. "Racist Culture". Blackwell: Oxford 1993
Braham Peter, Ali Rattansi and Richard Skellingtor. "Racism And Antiracism". Sage 
Publications : Great Britain 1992
"Ku Klux Klan". Encyclopedia Britannica