History of Racism

Racism is a terrible problem that happens when one ethnic group acts different to a different ethnic group just because they have a different religion, race, or tradition. Back in the 1600's racism was basically a daily way of life. Whites were always in higher classes, with families of different races underneath them them, as servants, maids, or even slaves. It was a horrifying way of life, and the treatment people of different races received was brutal at some points. If they did not obey the whites, they would be abused in front of anyone who was there to witness, whether it was elderly, adults, or new born babies.

The growth of racism increased in the 19th century, in Europe and in the United States. Blacks wouldn't be allowed to go to the same places white people would because they thought it would harm them or their kids. Once relations between different races started to form and not many people agreed with this. Cultures started to come together because people realized that they shouldn't focus on what past relatives did against other races and that they should make their own individual idea about relations with different races.

Racism struck the highest in the twentieth century during the rise and fall of when people really started to become racist. This was when South America passed laws and restrictions against the black and Africans on voting, and limited their rights in the USA. People who were against relations with different races had a plan to prevent black and white relationships. Some things they did were terrible, but it helped them achieve there goals.

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