Rant on Racism
Where to even begin. The idea of racism was something was taught in middle school history class when we talked about the Civil War. We learned about slavery and how people would be abducted or sold by people in Africa and then shipped to the US like cargo only to be sold to the highest bidder. It always puzzled me how anyone could ever do this. How could you look at another person and think that you could buy and sell them? How could you look at someone and think that they are beneath you? How can someone simply see someone of different race and think, “they don’t deserve anything more than being beaten and forced to work for no pay”? That was what I had learned of racism. However now when I look at the subject I realize it is so much bigger than the things I learned in school. Whether or not you are looking for it, we see black people being abused by cops, government, and really by basically every kind of person. We as white people often decide to look at other issues and justify ...