Evaluating and Refining Resolutions

Evaluating and Refining Resolutions

PHL/458 – Creative Minds and Critical Thinking

October 03, 2013

There are many problems or issues with racism. Racism affects people in many ways. It affect them intellectually, employment wise, violence, and unequal treatment in the courtroom. Scientists believed that black people were animals, and they had no intelligence. Racism was also the cause of unemployment in countries like the United Sates, Great Britain, Australia, and Canada. It caused many cases of violence in several parts of the world and with little efforts to provide justice to whom justice is due. According to Think Quest, "Racism increases minority’s risk of being convicted." Race is a refine version of racism. It is not very often that a White person would not discriminate against another White person; nor a Black person would discriminate against a Black person. When people say racism, race is usually what comes to mind.

History has proven that when a community of people share a culture with its own kind (people that have genetic traits and live alike) it is believed that any appearance or culture different is possibly judged by hypocrites as pathetic or worthless. Especially, if the group of people judged are considered powerless. Racism is the same as contemporary bullying it is offensive or violent behavior from a race feeling superior towards another. A prime example of this is Africans stolen from the mother land and forced over to America.

How does racism affect people mentally?

An individual’s upbringing and experiences have a great deal to do with the mindset of a person. Before President Barack Obama; many African Americans males felt that a glass ceiling was put in place to how far one’s success could grow. Some African Americans are so inferior and mentally damaged that they insult and would destroy its own people to meet the satisfaction of White America. The affects of racism...