Via Bilaal Rajan’s Newsletter:
Racism is perhaps the most shameful and destructive aspect of human history.
This week, the world will celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, observed annually in late March. Exactly fifty years ago this week in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people in Sharpeville, South Africa who were demonstrating peacefully against racial apartheid. The United Nations proclaimed the day in 1966 and called on the international community to strengthen its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.
I think its extremely discriminating when people are judged based on their color before anything else. A person should not be judged period; but especially just because of their color. In the world today a lot of problems occur due to judgement and stereotyping. An example of that in today’s society is when you see an Arab, the thoughts of terrorist automatically enter your mind. Black people are often looked down upon due to history and stereotyping. White people are stereotyped also; for some reason they are still blamed for slavery that occurred 300 years ago; just because someones white does not make them pro slavery.
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