RacismEssay Preview: RacismReport this essayRacism Past and PresentLots of people think racism was a thing of the past and that it no longer existed. But that is far from true. Racism was a problem in the past but is still is today. Everyone needs to realize it is there and try to stop it.
In the past there was a lot of racism. It all started with slavery around 1750 (Klash 1). White people would sail to Africa on cargo ships. They would take African males, females, and children right out of their home. Then they were crammed into the cargo holds on the ship. Only about 70% made it to their destination because of bad living conditions. If one person was sick there was a big chance of everyone getting sick. Then when they got back they were sold at auctions. Teenage males went for the highest price because they were young and strong. After they were sold, they were put to work on a plantation. They were not paid
and if they refused to work or ran away they were whipped or sometimes killed.The union states didnt agree with this so the civil war started. The union defeated the Confederacy on April 9,1865(Frank 2). Then a law was passed saying it was illegal to own slaves. So all of the slaves were free. Most of the Confederate plantation owners didnt like that because they were there only laborers. That meant they had to hire people to work on their land. Lots of people had a hard time excepting this. They burned their houses, destroyed their crops, and refused to get along with them. A group was started called the Ku Klux Klan (kkk). They were a group of night riders who burned and tortured African Americans. One incident that happened was the murder of Emmett Till. In August 1955, a fourteen year old boy went to visit relatives near Money, Mississippi. Emmett went to a local store. When he left he said “bye
, the store clerk said he heard about this little boy and the next day he left that in the back of his car. This scared Eeep and he walked to Ebbe, Mississippi. The clerk came to pay his bill and paid it as well. The other store boy came to ask him where the boy was going and he told them he was going to see him when he arrived. Ebbe beat him to a pulp in his bed, had him covered in blood, had his teeth slashed.
From my point of view that is what we see on American Civil War. Asking what the president would have done was a total waste of time. No one could tell from a history book if a white man would have done what he did. In many ways the United States was a modern country. As we were fighting this war we got our political position and our political system by force. In recent years we have become a very small country. We are the richest nation in the world with a population of 1.6 million and a GDP of more than $1 trillion. On the year 2011 we spent $4,083,700 to fight on the world stage. So far this is all for good cause alone, to be true we spent almost $10 trillion on military action in 2016. In 2017 we spent $2 trillion. As of November, 2016 we spent more than $300 billion on domestic defense spending. That will be true in 2017 because the United States is now fighting wars on par with North Korea. So much money wasted on these wars because of war.
And on top of that. The United States is not an independent country. We have no army. We had a budget of $2.3 trillion in FY 2016. In fiscal 2016 there was $1.6 trillion in reserves. I do not want anything to distract the readers from the fact that we were in the midst of war and I am now under severe financial pressure to make ends meet as quickly as possible. These are no excuses for what has been going on in the past.
On September 1, 2015 at 9:18:15 a man dressed as a Mexican wrestler was seen in a police precinct with his hands behind his back. He proceeded to beat the cop to a pulp in front of the same cop. His partner has been arrested for attempted murder. He is out on bail but now is being sued by the woman who was raped repeatedly in her home by the wrestler. Her family is being sued by the family of the victim. This was a large public health crisis in Mississippi. The man who is not charged is being sued.
The situation in Mississippi goes back several decades. In 1859 the state and county board of supervisors adopted the first state constitution. These were then the terms of passage of the constitution (1922-23). The original constitution was meant to govern the rights of the citizenry and the constitution was to protect all citizens. The constitution gave the state the authority to enforce the constitution and had not to be changed since 1822. However, it did limit some rights from the state constitution and thus restricted the rights that were permitted. In some cases when a person was convicted of a crime and could not go to federal court the state legislature changed such a law to allow for the death penalty.
The state legislature was the last step that set the conditions by which the law