Racism. What is it?
It's what causes prejudice and segregation
It's what causes childern to despise each other
It's what hatered and suicide
And then people ask me what it is!
When the answer is all around them
We all go through stage of racism, so dont tell me
There is none in the world
But in the end we are all equal and the same fate lies in us all
We will be judged!
By Hannah Hafeez
I will not lie, everyone has been racist or said something racist once in their lives. I would know; I go to high school. Whether it is that all Desi people are supposedly "geniuses", or that jocks are "Dumb", sometimes has been said by almost everyone something else.
Sometimes comments starting coming back is real racial slurs maybe once we got into the 21st century , except for blacks, whose racist comments never disintegrated after slavery. During slavery they were called niggers, and really I hate to say that word even in history, but now they are the object of racial profiling, and many high school students associate African-Americans with being thugs.
Most of the comments about Muslims started coming about Muslims just after September 11, everyone knows that, and some Muslim friends have mine have told me that some of their close friends that were non-Muslim starting ditching them after 9/11. This is related to racism because those entire racist comments that all of the people said about us after 9/11 hit them as true, and these same ?friends? are the ones continuing the racism today.
The point that I was trying to get across is that all the racist comments made by adults today or even years ago don?t really leave, they ended up staying in this generation, my generation, and if it continues in this path, racism will never go away or even lessen.
Natasha
