The Reality of Racism

The existence of racism in the past through the present simply cannot be overstated. Every sphere of activity by all aspects of racism. It is essential to understand what racism is because of the impact it has had and will always continue to have on society. In the late 1950's, America espeacially in the deep South such as Mississippi and Alabama, racism coruppted many minds and poisoned their spirits. In the autobiography Black Like Me, written by John Howard Griffin, as a deeply reliogous man who desperatley tried to build a bridge between blacks and whites. His six week odyssey through the South as a black man was a dark jouney into racism. The most dramatic scene the author experienced was when John Griffin goes into Mongomery, Alabama as white man. As a white man, he is no longer subjected to the "hate stare." As he walks into the black locality he, now a white, gets the same shriveling treatment that he, as a Negro had earlier recieved from the whites. He therefore comes to the realization that the racist poision exists in both races.

As John Griffin returned to being a white man, I was given deep insight into the white man's flase percepti

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