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Existed over a decade, Racism and has been known as hatred from one to another; whether you’re an African American, Caucasian, Jew, Asian, and Hispanic; from skin color, the language we speak, where we are born, and the religion we follow. Racism has been in act of wars, legal codes, and the way some nations may see each other. In Wikipedia “Racism is usually defined as views, practices and actions reflecting the belief that humanity is divided into distinct biological groups called races and that members of a certain race share certain attributes which make that group as a whole less desirable, more desirable, inferior or superior.”

The major part in racism led to was slavery, particularly to African American’s. African American’s can be seen as a deficient “species”, “savages.” African American’s were and ideal to slavery overtime of the 15^th to 16^th century. When European invaded Africa, they tried to remove the African American’s to work as slaves across seas. The African American’s were treated as property, forced to work without pay and against their will from time to time; beaten by sticks and whips, caged and in chains. Even children were forced to work as slaves. Dec. 8, 1865 slavery was abolished, but some parts of the world, slavery/racism exists. As slavery ended and the African Americans got their freedom in the later years, there was an issue in culture that they had trouble to work alongside with any culture. Till today, African Americans, Latino’s, Asian’s, and Muslims are still targeted as a threat.

In the 18^th to 19^th century, near all nationalities became an issue. Blacks can’t work alongside Caucasians, Hispanics, Jews, Asian, and other cultures, nor attend school with them. People were against each other because they were different. Not a lot of people cared if you shared the same view as them or work with them. Because someone is different than themself, random cultures makes them an easy target to become an enemy threat. If one culture were to marry or hang around a different culture. Both cultures would fight each other because it is wrong to marry or hang out with someone different. Wikipedia mentioned “Practices and ideologies of racism are universally condemned by the United Nations in the Declaration of Human Rights.”^[9] Anyone whom supports the cause and initiates the form of racism is punishable by law.

In the 1960’s a boycott emerged from all types of race to abolish Racism. Thus the Civil Rights Act 1964 was created. Racism still continued for about near 30 years, but has died down afterwards. The Civil Rights Act hasn’t completely wiped out Racism because up till today, Racism still exists. The Civil Rights Act is intended to a legal consequences to those that practice any prejudice and/or discrimination to those that are from a different country, color of the skin, and ethnicity. Even President Obama has to stand behind the bullet proof glass from so many death threats against him. I personally seen a lot of discrimination around the world. Officers who uphold the law can be seen as being prejudice and show a lot of discrimination toward the main targets of African Americans and Hispanics. Some stores can be seen as prejudice as they are seen hiring only Caucasian employees. Today people joke about Racism and being prejudice, some people take it very seriously if it’s a joke. There is no clue when Racism will completely be gone.