The American society focuses on that person, or group of people. They made them feel

worthless and they treated them like animals.

Imagine walking down the street and having people stare at you or call you

names, or talk behind your back. Imagine not knowing the time because nobody will tell

you. Why won't they tell you the time, or spare you some change? Because your black.

Actually, because your skin is a different color, your because your a different kind of

religion. In a way I admire them because they've survived for hundreds of years until

they were free, and now that they're free, the modern white men harasses them and beats

them. I mean, they even had a world wide organization named for them.

The KKK has been around for awhile. The KKK or the Ku Klux Klan, was

started to get rid of blacks and Jewish people. The author of "A Monument to Racism"

writes in her article that she was in Flowery Branch, Georgia, and in front of Danny

Carver's house, he's a KKK leader, was 8 or more signs, and on these signs read: "A

brain is a terrible thing to waste, that's why niggers don't have one. (Glamour 110)."

Texaco pled guilty because an employee walked in on a faculty meeting and heard white

racism in his voice. It just goes to show you how hypocritical people can be when

Many years ago the states had to force business' and schools' to allow blacks in.

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