What is Racism?

... What is Racism? I refuse to serve you because you are black. Racism, it's something that surrounds us all; some of us may have been victims of it, or perhaps you have been racist towards another yourself. It doesn't matter who you are, where you live, what job you work in, you are bound to have at least witnessed racism once in your lifetime; because racism is everywhere. Racism has existed for centuries, but during the last two hundred years hatred toward ethnic minorities has increased. The prejudice against black people dates a long way back into the history of the ancestors of the present day blacks and when the first came to the USA, as slaves. Although slavery was abolished black people were still frequently treated as second-class citizens and gave seemed to still have an image that meant they were not as superior as the whites. They were segregated on public transport and

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