People in Britain often get angry about the amount of immigrants that flee to our country. Whites who are against the immigrants usually claim that they are taking jobs from them. These people are the ones who either does not know why Britain has so many immigrants or they just simply failed History. After World War 2 when Britain had the dreadful task of trying to rebuild what had been lost in the consequential devastation they started to run public transport again. However the Britons who had fought in the war didn't want low paying jobs like running a bus and making sure the trains are on time, they felt that they deserved something better. To combat this problem Britain invited huge amount of West Indian people to Britain in order for them to take the unwanted jobs. The West Indians were grateful for the opportunity to work and many of them came and accepted jobs on trains and in busses. At the time people of Britain welcomed the immigrants from the various parts of the British Empire and they were glad to see that the people who helped them fight with Germany were being rewarded in a way that pleased the immigrants and was convenient to British people. People in Britain started to develop a problem with the immigrants once they began to set up their own businesses, buy houses and start families. Britons started to accuse the immigrants of stealing their jobs and houses and used them as scapegoats for all their own problems. The immigrants seemed to be blamed for every crisis in Britain and people would start trying to find any attempts to get rid of them. Although most problems came from the government it was much easier to blame someone who was different from the majority, because of their skin colour or because of their religion even their success can be criticized and blamed for various problems. A very good example of this type of behaviour is demonstrated in Hitler's raise to power. The German people wanted someone to blame for the economic crises. Hitler immediately singled the Jewish people out as being the cause because of their skills with money. He claimed that they had deliberately caused the depression, this satisfied the Nazi belief of a master race, and they believed that Jews were inferior. This resulted in the Holocaust, where over six million Jewish people were murdered for crimes they had never committed.
People in Britain today claim that there are far more non-whites than are true. There are places in Britain with a very high number of Asian, African or Kosoven people. In places where there is a non-white community people are lead to believe that there are far more non-white people than there actually are. In 1981 in Britain the total population was 54 million, and barely over 2 million of the population was coloured.
All over the world claims that people with coloured skin cause violence are being echoed. This is not true, of course some fights break out between to different kinds of race because something has happened to them that has angered them so much that violence appears to be the only answer. Still though exactly the same types of violence can go on between to white people because one of them called the other fat. It is human nature to defend yourself when you feel threatened. Coloured people DO NOT cause violence, and that has been proven throughout the history of black protest. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi proved this. Both these people were revolutionaries and they both fought for racial rights, but despite all there fighting they never resorted to violence. Martin Luther King was one of the principal leaders of the American rights movement. King's studies led him to explore the works of Gandhi, who led king into attempting peaceful protest. In 1955 Martin Luther King made his first major step into non-violent protest when he led hundreds of black people into a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. It was the arrest of a black woman, Rosa Parks that triggered the protest. She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. The Bus Boycott was a tremendous triumph for King despite him being arrested and jailed; eventually the 381-day action came to an end. A mandate from the Supreme Court outlawed all segregated public transport. The black people had gained a victory without the use of any violence.
Although it is common that Coloured people get blamed for various crimes. It is a lot less likely that they actually committed it. A recent survey carried out by the daily mail showed that 70% of white people committed crimes within the year 2000 and on 20% of Coloured people have committed offences.
Unfortunately after the Stephen Lawrence inquiry 4 out of 10 white police offers admitted to being partially racist. This is probably the most likely cause for coloured people to get blamed for crimes that they don't commit. Everybody has an opinion but when it comes to a case were somebody's being arrested those opinions are best kept to oneself.
Although it's not a common example in the 'Candyman' movies the Candyman is a African slave who was killed for falling in love with a white girl. The local people removed his hand and coated him in honey and let bees sting him to death. The sad thing is that this movie is more factual than it makes out to be. Things like this would actually happen and the only reason white people would do this is because of the colour of a persons skin.
People today would claim that that's in the past and things like that don't happen any more. Awfully though they do, people are still discriminated against because of their skin colour. Recently a young black boy called Damiola Taylor was killed. Many people believe that white gangs were responsible for his death, but recently police have stated that the £20 silver jacket he was wearing was the killers' target. The young boy was caught on film wearing the jacket but when he was found, dead the jacket had been taken from him. Lots of people would claim that this was not a racist attack and that the attackers were only after his jacket, but what sort of a person would kill for a £20 jacket. It's possible that the £20 jacket was the target but Damiola Taylor was still killed without reasoning.
Coloured people are a part of our lives, although they are the minority they deserve to be treated just like everyone else. Imagine how fewer problems we'd have if racism were a thing of the past. Young people don't see racism as a problem and they can look beyond someone's skin colour. Unfortunately though that child is likely to grow up around people who will make comments and look at black or Asian people as different. If people are racist it's usually because they've been brought up to think that and they never get a chance to work it out. Racism is not just a problem for coloured people it's a problem for everybody. If people don't change their opinions and racism continue to thrive, then what sort of a place will our children be brought up in? A place where there is war on every street because of something as unimportant as skin colour? I don't want a future of violence and hatred I want a future where everybody's at peace with each other and are looking at the things that are actually important in life.
Racism is a problem in the 21st Century. Just like it was in the centuries before it. There is hope for the future however. Racism is something that can just stop, it doesn't take a strong-willed person just not to call out and make racist remarks. Racism is not just something on the telly. Racism is very real and it's around us all the time.