Issues in Our Society (Part 2): Racism

Although many say it died when slavery was “abolished” racism is still very alive and well. Internalized racism, racism against Asians, Jews, Latino’s/Latina’s, Hispanics, Islamphobia, and anti-blackness are at their height in 2015. “Time Magazine” did a cover on the Baltimore Riots, crossing out 1968 and covering it with 2015, showing us how little everything has changed. People try to cover it up with “Dr. King wouldn’t have wanted this!” or “It was just a joke!”, when peaceful protesting didn’t work for Dr. King and just because it’s a joke doesn’t mean it isn’t offensive. People who are protesting are justified in their anger and pain. They’re people are being shot down and killed just for simply belonging to one group of people. The older generations have left all their problems for us to fix, which is hard to do considering they’ve also implemented their mindsets on us. The only way things are going to change if everyone has an open mind to change.