Racism and Victimization in America.

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Racism and Victimization in America

 

               Today in America there are many who assume that racism does not exist as

it did in the forties, fifties, and sixties.  Racism today is not as dangerous

as it once was, but that does not mean that it does not hurt people just as much.

 There are many who think we have solved our racial problems and that African

Americans live freely.  However, there are many African Americans who work

extremely hard to benefit society and all some people still see is their skin

color.  Malcolm X once said, "If you're born in America with a black skin, you'

re born in a prison."  From reading Lenita McClain's "The Middle Class Black's

Burden" and Shelby Steele's "On Being Black and Middle Class" the reader

concludes that middle class blacks are judged unfairly by whites and other

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blacks through an examination of:  1)white people thinking blacks cannot do an

adequate job, 2)lower class blacks who criticize middle and upper class blacks,

and 3)victimization.

 

               Racism today exists in many different forms.  There are many people who,

all their lives, were brought up to believe that black people are of a lesser

standard.  It is no wonder that many people think African Americans perform

inadequately even though these African Americans produce a high quality

satisfaction.  The people that doubt the work of an African American can

obviously be seeing only the skin color.  Lenita McClain states, "I ...

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