History consists of racial controversies: the European colonization and the annihilation of the indigenous population of the Americas, the Holocaust, and other genocides. Today racism exists in various aspects; people of color suffer from violence, hear racial slurs, and the authorities do not work in their favor. This paper provides evidence that racism is the problem of society, and it affects every person in the world.
Racism is an issue that correlates with inequality in society. The research of 2004 shows that black and Asian citizens do not receive equal treatment with white men as patients of the National Health Service (Rattansi, 2007). There was an act of inequality in a restaurant I visited once when a white waiter refused to attend to an African American family because of their complexion.
Racism is one of the crucial problems in the police. In 1999, a black teenager was murdered by the London Metropolitan Police, and it was one of the first cases when such an action was considered racist (Rattansi, 2007). In 2020, a series of events occurred when white police officers suffocated and shot black people, and we participated in the Black Lives Matter movement to fight this social injustice.
Instances of racism are present in the system of education. In her book, Lewis (2013) describes how the racial aspect affects teachers and pupils in their communication with each other. Differences between white students and those of color exist everywhere: in the neighborhood where they live (white and middle-class or black and poor), in the income of their families, and even during lunch at school. In a cafeteria of an academy I attended, most children sat with their friends, and friendships were based on race: white kids were in small groups and separated themselves from their classmates of other complexions.
Racism has been an issue for thousands of years, and present moments of inequality and injustice prove there is still a division between people of color and racial categorization. At least once in life, a person experiences racism; a man can be either on the receiving end of it or a witness of such acts. The realization of a connection between humans in the matter of racism is another question the society must work on to solve.
References
Lewis, A. E. (2003). Race in the schoolyard: Negotiating the color line in classrooms and communities. Rutgers University Press.
Rattansi, A. (2007). Racism: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press.