Racism Today


"...Everybody jumped on him, beat the hell out of him... Everybody was hitting
him or kicking him. One guy was kicking at his spine. Another guy hitting on
the side of the face... He was unconscious. He was bleeding. Everybody had
blood on their forearms. We ran back up the hill laughing... He should have
died... He lost so much blood he turned white. He got what he deserved"
(Ridgeway 167.)

The skinheads who performed this random act of racial violence in 1990,
had no reason to brutally beat their victim other than the fact that he was
Mexican (Ridgeway 167). Racism is objectively defined as any practice of ethnic
discrimination or segregation. Fortunately, racial violence is steadily
declining as the turn of the century approaches. Now a new form of racism,
covert racism, has recently sprung from the pressures of political correctness.
This new form of racism, although slowly declining, still shows signs of strong
support (Piazza 86). Covert......

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