In society today and even society years ago, race has been a sensitive topic that should not affect our society to the extent in which it does. I believe that racism is taught by parents and any influential person in your life. It essential works the same way political thoughts are passed down throughout the family. For example, black people gain the stigma that they are more violent or more likely to steal. Most black children are taught to always show their hands when pulled over by the police, ask if they can grab any item, and never question or speak back to any officers or they risk their lives. This is not the same way other ethnicities are treated or fear their lives whenever an officer encounters them. This is why our society needs to come together, acknowledge the issues people are having, and abolish them to make everyone truly equal, no matter their background or history. Racism needs to be spoken about in more public settings and within classrooms to change the way the younger generations view people and begin the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In society today and even society years ago, race has been a sensitive topic that should not affect our society to the extent in which it does. I believe that racism is taught by parents and any influential person in your life. It essential works the same way political thoughts are passed down throughout the family. For example, black people… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}