Blog #3

The term race is used to group or organize humankind based on there common decent or heredity. People have been using race in this way for thousands of years because it is practical and easy even though it is not always fair and equal. A racist is an examples of how a person or persons have used race for there own empowering or gain, by depicting there own race as superior to any or all other races.  Racist judge certain other races as one or all the same, which in my opinion goes hand in hand with the definition of stereotyping. Racist are usually uneducated people who joke or humor themselves by the judgment of another race. An example of racism from our recent readings is the United States government when they sent all Japanese Americans to internment camps because they were not to be trusted even though Japanese Americans had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor. A racist is a ignorant

If we laugh at a racist joke are we racist? In my opinion people who make fun of a race or laugh at racist jokes are racist. Nothing good comes out of a racist laugh or joke.  This type of humor originated to soften blow of how humiliating racism is. What could possibly be good about making fun of someone else, by illustrating there decent or heredity inferior all others?  Anyone who ignorant enough to think that they are better than someone else because of where they are from or what color their skin is could be called an uneducated bigot. Although the United States government still to this day uses race or heredity for its censuses every ten years, there is not a difference between any man or women. The only way to fight racism is to fight for the importance of education. even though there is a long history of racism, there is also a long history of people fighting these presumptions. One example that come to mind that we all have heard is from the works of the great Thomas Jefferson who once said in the declaration of independence, “All men are created equal”.

There is a connection between racism and the act of discrimination. Racism goes hand in hand with racist and it all leads inevitably to discrimination of a certain decent or heredity. racism comes from a hatred or prejudice against another race or ethnic group. Discriminating is judging someone by what the beholder views or thinks about someone because of their race, even though that is not actually who they are. The though of racism as a whole is a hatred used to better ones own race from another, Which leads to discrimination. When someone discriminates against someone else, they are preventing them from making steps of progression. Although there is a long history of racism and discrimination, it is getting better. By making laws against discrimination, we have slowed the spread of racism and the connection between them.