Racism in America

This would be a great topic for a Helium debate. Racism does strongly exist in 21st century America. America was founded to be a place for people to escape from oppression and dominance, but Americans let themselves be constantly oppressed and dominated by racism. America still deals with the issue of racism because Americans are intolerant of other races.

Many Americans hate immigrants because they supposedly take their jobs away from them. Many people are closed minded when it comes to changing their feelings about people of other races or getting to know them. These people give into the negative stereotypes of other races and ethnicities despite the fact that most of them are untrue.

As an immigrant, I endured a lot of racism growing up. I was laughed at and teased in school because of my foreign looks and features. When I'd tell people I'm Middle Eastern, they always assumed I am Muslim. Today, I am discriminated against when I job hunt since Americans only want to hire their own kind. I even have a hard time making friends since Americans don't want to get to really know me.

It can be argued that racism doesn't exist anymore since we have a black man running for president. However, many people predict that Barack Obama will be assassinated like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X if he wins. We may have a black candidate, but this is the first one in almost fifty elections, and who knows when another black candidate is going to come along.

We still have teachers making racist remarks and comments about students in our schools, we have racial discrimination in the job market, and we have racial profiling in airports all over the U.S. People still make racist jokes and comments, and look down on others from a different race, so it's clearly obvious that racism is far from gone in America.

Many Americans refuse to accept immigrants since they believe that Americans are superior to everyone. We have been living with each other for over 2,000 years, but we still don't know how to live together. Racism will not ever completely go away, but it can be minimized if we take the time to address the issue as a nation.