Discrimination

Martin Luther King Jr . While it is true that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. championed the cause for civil rights, the ppl who fought against racism as it revealed itself in slavery, were the abolitionist. They led the fight. However, any sane human being still fights for the cause of equality & equal justice. In a new book, THE GOD DEFINED SELF (A LAYMAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON RACISM IN AMERICA), Author Andre' D. Davis, delves deeply into this American problem that has contaminated the entire planet. His chapter on THE N WORD is most compelling. His urgent appeal to the politicians of our day is remarkable. This book is a must read for all Americans! It is available @amazon.com & barnesandnoble.com. Please, read this book, share its contents w/ your friends & neighbors, then join our national discussion on how to rid our country of this curse & plague. Thank you. Sincerely, Andre'

segregation was a time when people would be separated from the whites because of their culture or because of their skin color and the whites would have the blacks as slaves still in Texas they still believe in segregation.

Original answer:

I won't say racism is non existence in America. Rather there is still racism among the whites towards the black Negros, who had to fight hard dating back the days of slavery to date. However the percentage of racism has come down considerably.

My answer:

You cannot reduce racism to a percentage because different people have it to varying degrees. Most people would live beside a person of another race but many still only marry within their own race.

I strongly object to the original answer's implication that is is only white-on-black racism in the US (but out of respect for other opinions, I won't delete or alter it). In fact, you could argue that there is as much, if not more, black-on-white racism. As evidence, look at how white voters elected president Obama, largely ignoring his mixed race while blacks overwhelmingly voted for him, often because he was considered black.

In the US, there are people from all over the world. There are some people from every origin who have racist views about various other groups. And yet, despite all that, the country works surprisingly well and, in all fairness, racism is lower than in most other countries in the world. Homogeneous countries typically have the highest racism.

Hopefully common sense will prevail;

If we believe in the concept of logic while realizing that racism is a political term and not really based in logic, as is nothing political, then we are forced to look at the term in a slightly different manner than is common among most Americans. That humans prefer the company of people who look like themselves has been documented by several studies concerning the reactions of newborns to their caretakers. For too long, so-called social progressives (perhaps they once were) have controlled the hearts and minds of people who are not seriously concerned with solving our most grievous social issue, preferring to allow their personal political biases to get in the way of clear thinking.

Since racism is such an inflammatory word, I think it would behoove us to tone down our phrasing and realize that "racism" and even ethnocism, if there even is such a word, are natural and common weaknesses that we all share. But since weaknesses can be strengthened, it is not something that we have to be stuck with for the rest of our existences. Unfortunately, getting rid of useless prejudice is an individual endeavor often encompassing many disparate issues and thought processes and is not always well advised. This is an us vs. them world whether we like it or not and there are times when sticking with one's own can save one's life. The trick is recognizing when separation is necessary and when it's just plain silly.

For example, it would be insane for a "liberal-minded" Boer family in South Africa to live in a predominantly low income African neighborhood, or as some farmers have discovered, isolated from other Boers and surrounded by tribes other than their own. On the other hand, for an American to refuse to live next to people of other races whose background is more similar to his than many individuals with similar facial features and skin tone is ridiculous. This is the problem with ideology, it too often gets people killed and it continues the problem without even a trace of resolution.

If pragmatic people and not ideologues had tackled the problem of racial prejudice in the beginning of the battle in this country, we would have been brought together instead of torn apart, and we are being torn apart. Just because our citizens are less vocal about their hatreds doesn't mean they don't still have them. But, alas, this is not how we humans have ever chosen to do very many things.

Why is racism harmful?

It's not always harmfull. If we didn't have racism, we could possably be dead right now. If the Holocaust never happened, one of those Jews might have produced a killer, which could have killed your grandfather or grandmother, so I wouldn't be answering this question right now. Because we did, we are here today. Sure people died, but, people died because of Stallin too. no one points him out though, do they.

But, anyways, racism makes people angry, which can cause fights, which can cause harm, which can also cause death. so, DO NOT BE RACIST.

unless you are ready to face the consequences.

many women joined the abolitionist movement. as these women worked to end slavery they noticed how few rights they had to. so both black and white abolitionist men and women joined the struggle for womens rights

It is discrimination enforced by law. The best example was the segregated water fountains, restrooms and hotels in the Southern states prior to the 1960's.

There is no exact date that segregation began, because since America was "founded" there has always been segregation. Segregation has always had a prevalence in America from the time of slavery to the days of separate restaurants and bathrooms. The year that segregation ended was 1967.

That's very hard to say as "measuring" racism is a complicated thing to do. Some of it is covert and hard to detect while some is overt and comes in many forms that isn't so easy to, again, measure; (e.g., slurs, action, attitudes, etc.)

Although there were many groups and people who fought for (Freedom Riders, Rosa Parks,.etc.) and against (Ku Klux Clan, Topeka Board of Education) racial segregation, the most famous and prominent leaders include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, the Little Rock nine, and the Freedom Riders.

Segregation is the separation of people into racial groups without reasonable justification on the basis of discrimination. Racial segregation is outlawed in the United States, but unfortunately it may still exist within social norms.

The South African National Party caused and started apartheid.

He fought at first by doing nothing at all and ignoring the situation but as time went on he decided to believe in non - violent protest as when he was growing up his father told him to love the white man. He believed that all human beings are created in the image of God and all human beings are ultimately accountable to God; because of this he took action by protesting!

Apartheid - or cultural separation - was official policy in the Republic of South Africa until fairly recently.

Most white people remained "neutral" to Apartheid, since they feared the backlash from the government which was known to commit horrible acts of violence against protesters to the various segregative laws. Many still were in agreement with it, since there was (and still is) a mind set that said that all non-whites were inferior to white people and therefore did not deserve the same rights as white people. This was also, in part, fueled by various popular denominations of the Christian church in South Africa. A small number of white people (such as Helen Suzman, Pieter Dirk Uys) publicly spoke out against the Apartheid government.

Gloria Steinem

This is for Odyssey Ware

According to an article in Wikipedia, <<The first woman to be executed in the electric chair was Martha M. Place, executed at Sing Sing Prison on March 20, 1899.>>

The French hated the Germans in the late 1800s because the Germans attacked the French during WWI, because before the rise of Hitler, Germany wanted power.

It affects us much how it affected others in the past; very negatively and harshly though not quite as much as for people of the older generations since there were those of the past that fought for such things like racism and discrimination to be put to an end.

The Ancient Greeks have brought really important weapons to us, such as the catapult. They also invented one of the most common used fromat in history, GOVERNMENT! Ancient Greeks are not the people that have created most of the important things in this world, but Ancient Egyptians have. BTW some people could not afford wheat in Greece so they would eat bread, but with barley with it.

Progressive women held extensive campaigns throughout the country lobbying to get the vote. They also used the constitution's goal of equality to argue that women should be allowed to vote.

Gandhi himself was a racist, he reffered to blacks as kaffirs (savages) and believed in the purity of race. It's sad that such a person is blindly believed to be one of the greatest persons in history.

Many people like to relate the hatred extreme Muslims have for Americans to the support of Israel and to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. People who believe these are the reasons extreme Muslims hate America are, to put it politely, not well versed in the history. They hate America because we are a Christian nation, we believe in education, we believe women as being equal to men, we do not support shria law, and above all else we are not a Muslim nation. History proves these are the reasons extreme Muslims hate, the most recent example being Lebanon which was a Christian nation in the midst of an Arab world. Lebanon was a place where Muslims and Christians alike prospered until the immigration of more extreme Muslims drowned out the voice of moderate Muslims by execution and intimidation.

The Koran describes anybody not of Islam to be "Infidels". The Koran acknowledges the enmity and hatred of Christians, and instead of teaching acceptance, the Koran accepts the hatred and explains this will be the way of life until the resurrection.

Anybody who finds themselves asking this question, please don't simply take the answer here as fact, do research. I urge you to research what has happened in the past and dig further that what the mainstream media publishes. Once you have done that I am positive you will find yourself at a simple yet seemingly complicated resolution, they hate America becasue America is a Christian nation.

The beginning of the fight for women suffrage is usually traced to the "Declaration of Sentiments".

The living conditions for the native Africans during the time of apartheid were very terrible. The Afrikaner government of the time had made it so that black people could not own any land in 87% of South Africa due to the Group Areas Act enforced in 1950. The black people were only aloud in 13% of their own land even though they vastly outnumbered the white people in population and the 13% of the country that they were aloud to own which were called the reserves had unfertile soil and no real residential construction. The Africans were forced to make their homes out of corrugated iron, scrap wood and pretty much what ever they could find and the cost of the land was very expensive and unfortunately not much has changed since the abolition of apartheid.