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Race in America Reflection

Do you believe that race is still an issue today? Sure, we may have a black president, but that by no means race is still not an issue in America today. The Rodney King beatings in the late 90s is a direct modern day representation of racism in America. Many Americans believe that the civil rights movement is over but that is not the case. We may have acheieved laws for equal rights between African Americans and whites but it is the problem of our mores, the habits of the American heart that will be the hardest to erradicate. Certain people are superior, and certain people are inferior and you can tell the difference without even knowing them. The persistence of racism is in the assumption that black people only have color and white people don't. We not only blame the victims, but we also burden the victim. I hope for the day when Americans no longer stand beside as critical and pessimistic spectators, and as the blacks --Why do you continue to fail? Because the truth of the matter is that the burden belongs to the nation. this not the problem of some, this is the problem of all.