Facing_Racism

Facing Racism Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated for trying to end segregation. Rodney King was beaten in the streets because he was black. These are just a couple examples of hate crimes caused by race. Racism is really another word for ignorance. It's another way of saying that nature should have had only one type of flower or tree. It's another way of looking at the world with your eyes closed to diversity and change. Racism is another word for fear. Fear of the unknown is understandable, of course, and for many of us those of different races and creeds are the great unknown. Most of us are brought up in a particular environment with a particular type of people. We may come in contact with those of other races but we are too busy or perhaps too unconcerned to know them as people like ourselves. For many of us there is the uneasy feeling that they are different, maybe somehow inferior. The easiest option is to close our eyes not to their existence but to their entitlements, to their needs. Often we do not put those thoughts into words. We simply, as it were, stick to our own. We are comfortable should, people, same, know, another, race, way, really, one, fact, color, war, tell, races, need, eyes, each, being, afraid, about, whatever, tackle, skin, rather, racism, problem, person, own, often, fears, different, culture, course, , yourself, word, window, views, unknown, understandable, type, tend, share, regardless, reasons, real, protect, perhaps, particular, must, mother