Race and Racism

what young people know and understand about race.  Is there a difference between how genders experience race and racism?

Racism is very real for young people today. Young people know and understand about race and also do not know that every gender experience racism in different ways. This means that racism has had a major affect on everyones lives, even starting from birth as a young child. Whatever your color, gender, and cutural background is everyone experience racism in the world.

Many adults try to hide racism from their children but the problem is, little kids already know about racism. In the film "A Girl Like Me" young children that were African Americans were given a test on which doll they would like to play with. More than half of all the children would rather play with a white doll than a black doll. These children thought white dolls were prettier and nicer, and the black doll were hideous and evil. Racism is not taught, it's something they learned from expirence.

Decades many people have been discriminating against African American people and bring their self esteem down also. When someone thinks about African American people they see kinky hair, dark skin, ugly and bad. Truth is not all people with dark skin is evil. Trevon Martin was followed and killed for being African American and wearing a hoodie. Trevon was killed by a white man who thought Trevon was a threat to him. The police department did not react quickly to this because he was a "white man". If the story was the opposite and Trevon was white and the killer was black, the man would have done life in prison without hesitating.

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