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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 in most southern states people still thought of black people as a lower form of humanity. Kind of like how people in California think of Mexican-Americans. They are just here to live off of the white man's hard work and tax money. I just did not understand and thought he was telling me one of his tall tales again. .
             Then when school started in June of 1989 I found another disturbing example of racism. I had made friends with a little black girl named Carrie. One afternoon when we were walking down the street to my house a police officer pulled over in front of us and got out of the car. When I asked him what was wrong, he just politely asked me if there was a problem. Of course I said no but he said that if I did not want trouble that I need to find myself in better company. "Better company" I said, "How is that?" He said that keeping people around me that were trouble meant that people would look at me as being trouble.


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