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Racism

Racism

Racism is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial difference produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.   These primary determinants affect everyone, everyday of their lives.  I realized this when my family moved from southern California to Oklahoma in the summer of 1989.  African-Americans had lived around and beside me the whole time I lived in California and I never thought anything about it.  Yet when I moved to Oklahoma I discovered that many of the small towns around me were segregated.  The color of a person skin determined how they were treated in society.
	My first experience with racism is when I traveled to Henryetta, Oklahoma with my grandfather.  We where traveling down the old highway when we came up to a sign that said "Niger's out by sun down."  "What is a Niger?" I asked my granddad.  He explained to me that a Niger was a person with black skin, someone that was a descendent of the African-Americans that were slaves in the 1800's and early 1900's.  He also explained to me that Oklahoma was a southern state and

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