Segregation and Discrimination

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The treatment of the African-Americans The treatment if the African-Americans have, in my opinion, almost always been worse than e.g. the treatment of European people. Back in the 17th century, the white people travelled to Africa and took the Africans as slaves back to their country. In their country, they continued to treat them as slaves with, no respect, to do the hard work, i.e. picking cotton, harvesting tobacco, building railroads etc. You were basically judged based on your skin color, not by your character. Even though the slavery was set a long time ago, the segregation and discrimination has yet not completly ended. A great event back in the 19th century, were the speech from Abraham Lincoln to declare the slaves free. But still, he didn't want them to have the same social and political rights. The situation got better for the colored people in some parts of the world, but not the same as the white people. This case repeats itself after Luther Martin King had made his famous speech “I have a dream”. The situation got better for colored people, but there was still hatred against colored people, including Sweden. This hatred where especially one of the reasons why the racist group Ku Klux Klan was started, and spread. In a world where there is lots of love, and respect, there is also an opposite side, just like ying and yang. There is good, then there is an opposite, bad. Why did so many people join, and still stays in such a bad group as the Ku Klux Klan? There is many different reasons; one of them is people growing up in a society whom are against equality, and still sees difference between the same species, Homo sapiens, because their appearance. This makes me really enraged, not only because this is egotistical, ... ... middle of paper ... ... an opinion of how the majority of swedish speaking people percive immigrants. Sources http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/08/13/anthony_s_karen_a_photojournalist_s_unrestricted_access_to_the_ku_klux_klan.html https://twitter.com/RosenbergTennis http://imgur.com/gallery/43GOF Now write a text in which you discuss the treatment of the African-Americans. Give your opinions, explain why you think the way you do, give arguments and examples to support your opinions. What might other people think? Compare the situation in the 1960s with the situation in Sweden today. Is there segregation in Sweden? In Eskilstuna? Is there discrimination in Sweden? In Eskilstuna? If so, what similarities and differences can you see? On what grounds are people being segregated and/or discriminated (sex, ethnicity, race, age, religion, etc)? Describe, explain and give examples.

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