Essays on Racism

“When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before” (Brad Meltzer). In the essay, “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. uses personal experience, people of the past, and events from the…

Today, racism is alive and continues through both hidden and hidden ways. Delgado stressed that “racism can be defined as a classification of a particular group of people based on uncontrolled factors such as ethnicity, religion and physical characteristics.” Therefore, sadly knowing the reality of…

When you talk about racism in football, it’s one of the the problems that persist despite the attempts of FIFA to kick it out. Racist abuse in football is very saddening especially when it’s coming not from opposing fans but from a fellow professional footballer….

Racism and discrimination have been present in almost every era throughout history. Unfortunately, it still exists in our population in ways which remind us of the hardships that people of colour had to go through, mainly in the United States. Even though the world has…

Genocide is the term is defined as the immoral crimes that the particular authority (government) can do against the people. Genocide is the goal to kill the people on the basis of race, beliefs or the political status. The term genocide was firstly created in…

The term gay racism first appeared in a collection of poetry, essays, short stories, and photographs meant to explore the fraught relationship between race and sexuality in the United States (DeMarco, 1983). Since its original debut, the concept of gay racism has been expanded by…

Racism: Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Racism was first defined by the Oxford dictionary in 1989 but was a major problem long before then and is still continuing to…

1. Mesut Ozil Germany international footballer quits from the Germany team citing racism mark by the federation. Ozil said in his tweets: I am German when we win but I am an immigrant when we lose. This is not why I play football and I…

The best-selling classic, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, has enlightened the world of the hardships of those that have bared the brunt of racism and sexism first-hand. This gripping story details how a young, black woman has lived through the horrors of the…

The lack of total acceptance that racism and white privilege has created a time fuse between minorities and the white community has caused an imbalance in the society. What is racism? What is white privilege? Racism according to Oxford dictionary is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism…