Racism
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 01:47:53
Racism is a certain kind of prejudice, based on faulty reasoning and inflexible generalizations toward a specific group. The word prejudice comes from the Latin noun praejudicium, which means a judgment based on previous decisions formed before the facts were known. If a person
allows their prejudiced beliefs to block the progress of another, it is discrimination. Those who exclude all members of a race from certain types of employment, housing, political rights, educational opportunities,
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when he states,
Just watch the black and white children playing and going to school
together; they don't care if their friends are white or black; they just care
about sharing common interests. It's only when adults start putting that
racial bigotry and prejudice into the minds of the children that they begin to
think about race. The children can teach the adults about how to learn
from, respect and get along with one another.
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