Racism: Why African American People Are Good At Basketball

Racism is here. I feel it, do you? Everyday when you walk up stairs and look down at the Cafeteria. What do you see?

Everybody has a basic idea of what racism is and what it means. The first definition, from Oxford Dictionary, “is the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability”. Racism, then, can be seen as hatred or intolerance of another race. These ideas are based on old ways of thinking. These old ideas can become common examples of racial stereotypes: black people are better athletes, Asian people are superior at math or Brazilians are superior at soccer. Is there any superiority among each race of people? No. The reason why black people are good at basketball is because the amount of black people who play basketball is way more than the amount of Caucasian or Asian people that play basketball. That’s why African American people dominate the NBA. But other countries and its people have become more competitive as

Well you will see the café has been divided into four groups. They are international students, grade ten, and grade eleven and grade twelve. Why aren’t they sitting together like it is meant to be? While that is racism.

Sometimes a simple comment can also be racist. For example just this year, I finish my math class and a friend of mine asked. “What class are you having there?” I answer “Math ten I skipped a grade.” “Yeah, like what every Asian does. “These sounds like a compliment but is actually racist people say Asian people are good at math because they are superior, which is not true. In the Asian education system, which I was in from kindergarten to grade 5, we did more than two hundred math questions a day when we are in elementary. This is why we seem superior, but we are actually not.

So, why are people acting in a racist manner? Racism is based on ignorance，fear of differences and ideas of