A presentation on Racism

2. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or
individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to
rule others (dictionary.com, 2014)

3. • Much of today’s acts of racism branch of from the 1400’s.
• Europeans were colonizing Africa and the America’s.
• Europeans thought it was their job to civilize the
“savages”
• A systematic practice of denying people their access to
rights, representation, or resources based on racial
differences.
• Not natural.
• Throughout history, people from different racial groups
have co-existed and interacted peacefully
(dosomething.org, 2014.)

4. • Millions of Natives live in the United States, after the
colonial era.
• During the colonial era, Natives were exposed to a long
series of wars, massacre, forced displacements, restriction
of food rights, and the imposition of treaties, land was
taken, and numerous hardships were imposed.
• Natives were claimed of being merciless Indian savages.
• Once the territories the Natives inhabited were
incorporated into the US, the Natives that had lived were
relocated to reservations, which only constituted 4% of
the US territory, and the treaties that were signed, were
violated.
• In current day the Natives are most harshly affected by
institutionalized racism (dosomething.org, 2014)

5. • Slavery in the US began shortly after English colonists first
settled into Virginia and lasted until the passage of the
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
in 1865.
• By the 18th century, people of the African decent and
Black Africans, and sometimes Native Americans were
made to be slaves.
• Racism in the United States was the worse during the 18th
and 19th century then it has been during any other time
(dosomething.org, 2014)

6. • Recent increases in both legal and illegal immigration of
Latin Americans have spurred anti-Latino sentiment.
• The debate on immigration has created negative feelings of
nativism and racist claims that Latin Americans are taking
over white Anglo- American society.

7. • Racism against Arab Americans have risen along with
tensions between the American Government and the Arab
World.
• Since the World Trade Center incident in 2001,
discrimination and violence has rapidly increased against
Arab Americans and a handful of other religious and
cultural groups.
• Iraqis were the ones demonized which resulted in hatred
towards Arabs and Iranians living in the United States.
• Many Christian Arabs have been attacked because of their
appearances.
• Hollywood is guilty of portraying Arabs as bad people
(dosomething.org, 2014.)

8. • In 1968 the Black Women's Liberation Committee was
founded.
• It was difficult to be a black woman from the mid 1960’s-
1970’s.
• Black women were the back bone to the civil rights
movement, but were deemphasized as black men
(copyright, 2014.)

9. • “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will
be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”- Martin
Luther King Junior
• “Hating people because of their colour is wrong. And it
doesn’t matter which colour does the hating. It is just
plain wrong.”- Muhammad Ali
• “In this country American means white. Everybody else
has to hyphenate.”-Toni Morrison (Goodreadsinc, 2014)

10. • Society works together to be a functioning system.
• We all have arms, legs, and a brain, and so on.
• We all have to work together no matter what colour to
have a functioning society (copyright 2003-2014.)

11. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVR2H8J7Rs

12. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LVeqqBZTQ4

13. • In my opinion the solution to racism would be for
everyone to get along, people need to realize that we all
bleed red and that if it weren’t for all the different
cultures we converse with everyday the world wouldn’t be
the same as it is now…which is really sad….Everyone just
need to get along, you can’t judge a book by its cover.

15. dictionary.com, 2014
dosomething.org, 2014
www.dummies.com, 2014
goodreads.com, 2014
education-portal.com, 2003-2014
youtube.com, 2014