Every 100,000 people,
1369 males and 895 females die from racism. In one anecdote I read, there were
a black friend and a white friend. They were best friends. However, when they
were playing football with others, the black friend and the white friend made a
perfect tackle. But that got one of the opponent in rage and started to beat up
the black friend. But surprisingly, the opponent didn’t beat up the white
friend. That is one example of racism. Because of racism, many victims commit
suicide, victims get excluded from a ‘proper’ quality place, and victims start
to kill people
With more people starting
to create crimes that are related to racism, the more victims start to commit
suicide. But, you may wonder racism has ended in the past already because many
notables fought for them. However, racism didn’t end. In fact, it won’t end in
the future. It is a constant cause that will keep on happen in the future.
That’s why victims of racism are starting to commit suicide. Perhaps while you
are reading this, another committed suicide. As more and more people die, 62
million people have died in the past 100 years because of racism (Quote). This is 1/100th of
the world population now. 1/100th might be very low but the world population
now is about 7 billion. You can’t name the specific reasons of racism of why
those 62 million commit suicide. It can be due to people calling you names,
starting to beat you up, making fun of you. However, in my point of view, the
victims shouldn’t commit suicide. You should have a stronger mind and try to ignore.
One big major reason people commit suicide is because they don’t want to live
anymore. They will think that if they die, everything will be over. “If you die
you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of
dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve
got.” - Kurt Cobain. The quote shows that when you die, you will be in a safer
place. From there, you can be another person. However, not all people die
because they want to become a better person. A lot of people die just because
they don’t want to live. They don’t need another life. There were many people
committing suicide in the past 100 years. But the major reason people committed
suicide is because of racism. However, there are many major reasons of racism.
One of them is racial exclusion.
Racism is still
happening, and the most common situation that happens is being excluded from a
certain place. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood, he got sent of a
shoes-shop when his dad and him were going to buy shoes. “We do not serve
colored in front of the store.” In Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood, he got
sent of a shoes-shop when his dad and him were going to buy shoes. “We do not
serve colored in front of the store.” Martin was only a child when he suffered
from racism. After that incident, instead of committing suicide like other
people, he instead became strong and protested for racism between the Whites
and the Black when he got a little bit older. One major racial exclusion is
happening in this world now is because some of them don’t have cross race
friends. Therefore, their racism will be worse as they don’t make any
cross race friends. In a survey a group of people took, they found out that
people with cross race friends thought that it is not OK to exclude people from
what they are doing. However, people with no-cross race friends thought it was
OK to exclude from what they are doing. (Abc
News) Martin Luther King Jr. tried to stop the people in the survey
who said yes to racial exclusion. People who said yes to racial exclusion
should try to make cross race friends so that we can prevent racial exclusion.
Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t want the future of America to be a racist country
like he suffered. So, we would have to make cross race friends. But, many
people are trying to take revenge over racism.
Another big main factor
is when racism happens, the victim wants to take revenge. Then, violence is
involved. When people interview some black people, some of them don’t put the
interview in their story just because of the fact that they are black. This
made the blacks mad and bring violence. “Many interviewers when they come talk
to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any
longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d
mention it.’”- Colin Powell. By the quote Colin Powell said, we can see that
Colin Powell couldn’t stop his temper and said he would use violence. Same for
other victims of racism. They will do anything to kill/injure the attacker as revenge.
Some people think to get freedom; the best way is to get rid of it in your
mind. To get rid of your mind, you will have to get rid of who or what is in
your mind. That is when violence starts to come in. Here is another quote of
Thomas Jefferson who gave another racism quote about depression. “A strong body
makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While
this gives moderate exercises to the body, it gives boldness enterprise and
independence to the mind.”- Thomas Jefferson. What Thomas Jefferson advises you
to do is if you have a problem, he advises guns. If it feels like your blocked
mine won’t be open back because of someone, you go get rid of that person.
Revenge might be the answer for some people but it isn’t. If people revenge,
their father will take revenge back. Then, this will be constant.
In this world, more and
more people are committing suicide, people being excluded from many events, and
more and more people are getting killed because of racism. We shouldn’t have
people like Martin Luther King Jr. every 50 years who are brave enough to stop
racism. We all can be a person like Martin Luther King Jr.. So what will YOU do
to stop racism like Martin Luther King Jr. without violence?
