Persuasive Essay About Racism

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Part of human nature is judging something by what surrounds it even if it is another human. Think of a community that has every color, every race, every religion, and every kind of person that community however, doesn’t value each other to some point which causes a problem, a problem that we call racism in today’s era, a problem that needs to be eliminated because it allows a gap that shouldn’t exist in our society. Our society must understand that it isn’t okay to discriminate someone for how they look or what they believe in or what color they happen to be, specifically speaking to those who aren’t smart enough to realize that discrimination isn’t making any change for the better nor is it allowing certain groups in the community to advocate …show more content…

“Many times we, as societies and individuals, think that racism will dissipate on its own; so, we ignore it, repeatedly.” (). By thinking that racism will be gone on its own we are even giving it more time to spread because we are taking less action towards the main issue. Racism will not dissipate on its own so we must start taking action about discrimination as a whole. “I’m talking about low intelligence, lack of mental ability, cognitive rigidity.” (). It’s not necessarily the lack of intelligence because that is slightly far but rather the lack of thinking because in order for us to recognize racism we need to stop for once and think about who we treat that way and why we treat them that why? This might make a difference. “If an organization like the KKK with around 5,000 members can 't be removed, how can one possibly believe that racism as a whole can be stamped out?” (). The reason we can’t stop the KKK is the same reason we can’t stop racism which is not being able to find its roots, and if we keep ignoring it and we will come to a realization that neither of them aren’t going anywhere. By stopping racism in the Denver community we might be able to get people to recognize that racism is less in Denver and maybe people will start to do something about

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