The novel Mississippi Trial 1955, by Chris Crowe is based on a true story of racism and terror. A fourteen years old black young men is brutally murdered by three white men.

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Pedro Frazillio

Professor Meek

English Comp II MWF 10:00

2/14/2011

The Terror of Racism

Racism is one of the major problems in the world and it is not recent. Cases of racism have happened since many years ago. The African slaves were not just slaves, but were also a target of the racism because the most of them, if not all of them, were black. Other cases involving racism happen all the time in each part of the world. In Brazil, a 18 year old boy went in the soccer stadium to watch his favorite team, but he was killed just because he was black. The novel Mississippi Trial 1955, by Chris Crowe is based on a true story of racism and terror. A fourteen years old black young men is brutally murdered by three white men. The reason: his color. One of these three white men the killed that boy in the novel says “God made Negroes to work the land” (8). Will the racism end some day?

         Racism started a very long time ago. In the first contact between Portugal and Africa, in the fifteenth century, they did not have any racial fights. The Negroes and other people from Africa made a business deal with the Europeans that

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included the slave trade that in that era was a good way to grow the number of workers in one society, and not a racist thing. However, when the Europeans in the nineteenth century began to colonize the Black continent and the Americas, they found justification for imposing the colonized peoples with their laws and ways of living. One of those reasons is the bad idea that Blacks and Indians were inferior races and began to apply a racial discrimination in the colonies to make sure certain rights to Europeans have kept. A case that happens in the ...

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