Racism has been around as long as humans have been around. Humans have always feared or hated people that looked different from themselves. In other words, racism is just part of human nature. Racism is a form of oppression. It's caused by discrimination against a group of people based on the idea that some characteristics, such as the color of their skin makes them inferior. Although racism has been around along time the idea of race and racism are fairly new. It came about in the African slave trade during the fifteen and …show more content…
Africans were thought to be of lower standards because of their skin color and lack of education. To this day African Americans still suffer from racism, it's just different types of racism. When most people think of racism they think of the KKK going around and terrorizing African Americans but that's not how racism is today. Today there are several different types of racism that people deal with everyday. Most people today deal with a type of racism known as subtle racism. Subtle racism is when someone or group of people is being or making racial actions against a person without actually doing anything to them. An example of this would be if an African American walked into a store and a security guard followed him because he thought he would steal something. This doesn't just happen to African Americans. After nine eleven