As the amount of ethnic diversity gradually increased in the political systems of Louisiana and the United States, organizations rapidly formed to challenge the new ethnic variation in government. The Ku Klux Klan is one of these groups that were formed by people who were angered by the increase of diversity in political office and in the workplace. But even as we move further back into history racism has flared up in many different countries, not just our own. We see in our history book stories of hatred towards human beings due to the nation they originated from, or even the choice of religion and name.

We take a brief look at the early colonial days and title the situation as we see it. Imagine standing in the center of town, life buzzing

all around you, the baker selling his bread, and the fisher selling his daily catch, the women gossiping and the children playing with dolls and pretending sticks are guns. We begin to hear bells coming from behind, it is the town council men, they are pulling with them a young woman dressed in blue. They drag her to the town center and up to a large contraption, this "machine" is meant from taking ones life, for taking the breathe of life from someone's body. The leader takes his place and pulls out a scroll and reads. He says that the woman has been charged with blasphemy, in other words she is a "witch", and not just that, but is also charged with casting a spell on her fiancee'. They claim the spell is what gave him an early death. She looks as though she has been fighting with the men, and now the whole town has their eyes on th!

defined as 'intense dislike or hostility: a feeling of intense dislike, anger, hostility, or animosity' (http://dictionary.msn.com/find/entry.asp?search=Hatred).

Someone decided because they did not look the same, they should be despised. Now one of the gifts we received as being from God was the gift of diversity, we are all different, so if this person was true to what he believed he should hate all others. This person began the Ku Klux Klan, he, along with others, were upset at the increasing population of diversity to the United States. The scars of the Civil War continued to be opened and so the hatred continued under our noses. This hate was just waiting for a moment to rear its ugly head...and it did. If it were not for people such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, we would still probably have large difficulties with racism, these two people, along with supporters proved that one person can make a difference. If we were still in that time period, imagine using a different water fountain, imagine placing yourself in the shoes of the scorned, imagine what child would go through and what we would have to go through. If!

Anti-Semitism took a large leap into our view during the Second World War, and because of Adolph Hitler's

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