Can you escape racism?

Every day, we face racist words. It is up to us to stop the use of these words. People use them in books, movies, and so many other things.

Movies are the biggest form of media that contributes to the growth of prejudicial words. In movies, actors use many racial terms are part of the story, but do not mean the words they say, but the words still have the same meaning. For instance, the word “nigger” is used a lot in movies. This teaches young people who do not fully understand the history of the word to use it and can cause more problems than they thought would happen. I think another problem is that many African-Americans have been using the term “nigger” and “nigga” in a way that to them it has a good connotation. This teaches people to think it would be okay to call them that, but when they do call them by those names it causes a big problem and makes the person call them those names with the bad connotation that I feel goes with both words no matter what. I feel a great example of racism is American History X. It shows all the ways racism can affect your life. It had it in books, music, movies, news, friends, and so on. It showed what racism does to people, it showed it between people of the same race and people of different races.

Music has a lot of racist remarks in it. Rap music especially, it seems to divide their own “kind” into two different groups, causing wars between gangs basically and they sing about it and get paid to promote hatred amongst each other. I know I try to stay away from music that basically preaches to you to do horrible things or say horrible things. I know I feel horrible when I do something that I am not proud of. I feel horrible when I even think something horrible. I have thought racist things about all racist. I have thought someone to be “trailer trash” or someone to be a “nigger”, but I do know this there is a “nigger” in every race because it means someone who is ignorant and honestly it seems most people today are ignorant and do not even care to further their education and open their minds, it seems they are more happy to stay in their simple minded world.

Books are another form that people can find prejudicial words in. People today, still, write books about hating other people calling them horrible names. The authors are teaching the people reading the book to hate others and call each other names and sometimes even telling them to attack others.

The media has always been a way to show racism. The most popular race that has been attacked is African-Americans. It has sadly been this way because they are different skin tone than the people of European decent. These slurs have been going since the time of slavery when blacks were not considered to be equal human beings. After, African-Americans were set free many movies portrayed the black men as basically animals that were only out to rape young white women, which was not true. This taught the people to fear and basically hate black people, which then taught those people to teach their family members to feel the same way and passed it on to the next generation. This growth of racism originated from the media and grew so much that it transferred from family member to family member.