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Nov 30, 2017
ROBERT SMALLS
Slavery was abolished shouldn’t racism?
The question whether racism is still alive today is still an ongoing question. Slavery was abolished in 1865 so automatic assumption is that racism is also dead. This idea of racism still being an ongoing endemic in today’s issues. Due to multiple issues such as police brutality and racial discrimination this lead to the founding of The Black Lives Matter group in 2013. This group was founded to campaign and defend African Americans who feel that their rights and equality are being challenged.
This begins in 1862 when Robert Smalls who was a slave himself, commandeered a confederate transport ship and escaped his way to freedom alongside others including his wife and children. Smalls sailed the harbor in Charleston blind siding and shocking southerners with his courageous act. There’s no denying that slavery was violent and profitable. This escape to freedom was just the beginning, Smalls represented on behalf of African Americans equality and education. Smalls went on speaking of his escape, this lead to being elected as South Carolina legislature where he proposed public school systems and civil rights to African Americans. This proved that a man can go from a slave to a freedman working alongside white men.
Another reason racism is still alive today is the fact Firstly, Racism is taught, we are not born knowing the meaning of different colors of the skin. Children who grow up in an environment where harsh and cruel remarks are made about those of a different race are more likely to keep this ongoing trend. Studies have shown that those the ages of thirty years or younger and more supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement. This is common considering a man over the age of sixty growing up in an opposite time frame where racism was more public.
that there are still active Ku klux Klan groups and members across the country who do stay private. Organized in 1865 the Ku Klux Klan engaged in violence against blacks such as lynching, beatings, and hate rallies.
On the contrary, some may say when slavery was abolished so was racism. The point that we have African Americans in politics and working with white men should be proof enough that slavery is no longer an issue. One main point is the first African American being elected president in 2009. With this idea in mind that an African American is in office it is
Some may say the blacks are not the ones being mistreated but whites feel their humanity and wellbeing are being challenged. White supremacist still believe that they are being mistreated by the media giving those who are on the outside looking in a poor opinion.
For hundreds of years blacks were mistreated and still are todays whether its teens in high school being degrade for their race or and adult being told they are not welcome or seen as an equal, racism is still a continuous endemic affecting those of all ages and the lives of those who rights as citizens are being challenged. It is astounding that Robert Smalls dedicated his work to creating equality for all and hoped that mark would end such cruel punishments. Yet, to this day men and women are aggressively fighting for their equality Smalls hoped to end during his life time.
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