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Messiah Abayon

Ms. Trotter

English Lit

30 November 2017

Big Problem of Racism in Our Country

Catherine E Shoichet. “More in U.S. say it's a 'big problem.”

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/us/racism-problem-cnn-kff-poll/index.html

In this article, Catherine explains the controversial question of how big of a problem is racism in

our country and explains how it grows every year.

After Catherine and her crew did a examine in a new nationwide poll conducted by CNN and the

Kaiser Family Foundation, they found out the result was roughly half of Americans 49% say

racism is "a big problem" in society today.

Catherine shows how racism is getting bigger every year, she stated that the percentage is also

higher now than it was two or three decades ago. Which this year where the bias we’ve seen in

the media, that seems to spend all its time talking about the bad policemen and the bad white

people and ignoring the crime and the awful conditions that are happening in large part of the

black youth.

This article gives me a good overview of my topic with the controversy about racism is a really

big problem in our country; which it can help me to backing up with my topic on racism by

looking back some of the graphs that was provided in this article. It gives me more information

than I already know which helps me to understand more.

Causes of Stereotype
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McLeod, S. A. (2015). Stereotype. Racial stereotypes of one hundred college students. Journal

of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 28, 280-290.

Retrieved from www.simplypsychology.org/katz-braly.html

In this article, McLeod takes a look at the issue of stereotypes, if most stereotypes probably tend

to bring a negative impression.

After studying on the issue of stereotype, Mcleod have found that stereotypes exist of different

races, cultures or ethnic groups. The use of stereotypes is an important way in which we

understand our social world, which is one of the reasons for prejudice attitudes that people had.

McLeod open up about how we assume that a person has a whole range of characteristics and

abilities that we assume all members of that group have, which turns to a social categorization.

This article gives me enough information about my topic; it helps me to understand my topic

easily and it can also help me to support my background research.

Educating People About Racism

Rick Wormeli. “ Let's Talk about Racism in Schools”

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/nov16/vol74/num03/Let's-Talk-

about-Racism-in-Schools.aspx

In this article, Rick Wormeli talks about the issue dealing with educating people about racism

and he stated that no one is born racist we learned it from everyone that is around us. Just as

important, racism is not impossible to just happen.

After Rick examine the different

Rick reveal the facts about how we all construct our own kind of the human story and our role in

it. The violence that has happened recently because of different colors, cultures, religions, and
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political groups has been so bad. Social media is also involve about this issue, where people uses

media to get everyone's attention by using a racist action.

I would say that this article helps me more to understand about my topic because it really

explains every detail that the author says. By reading this article I learned that us the people

we’re the one who makes things complicated but that doesn’t start with us exactly, it starts with

the people with power. This problem doesn’t really have an equal chances for everyone until our

organization take particular actions to end that thinking and those policies.

Stopping Racism

Tim Soutphommasane. “Stopping racism is everyone's responsibility”

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/stopping-racism-is-everyones-responsibility-

20171004-gytwd0.html#comments

In this article, Tim evaluate about stopping racism and the controversial question is where and

how does it really stop.

The author of this article has a campaign to support the work of anti-racism which is called the

"Racism. It Stops with Me", through that he investigate the different types of things to improve

and solve the problem of racism.

Tim shows that the way we stop racism is it has to start with us because all of us have our part to

be involved in our everyday lives. Which means that communication about racism don't always

need to involve a belief in racial supremacy or even racial malice means an evil intention. He

stated that racism matter to us but that doesn’t mean we need to stand in every victim of racism,

because for example, to step down the task of stop sexism to women alone.
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This article provides a good information because I learned that this issue about racism needs to

stop and it has to start with us. This is a big help to support my background research, it gives me

the information that I needed.

Punishments for Racism

Ruth Mayhew “What Are the Consequences of Discrimination on the Job?”

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/consequences-discrimination-job-1312.html

In this article, Ruth Mayher explores the controversial question whether there is a punishment for

racism.

As I read through the article,she examines how does racism get a punishment when it becomes to

a job place and if it involves a crime.

Ruth shows that racism doesn’t have a punishment but if it becomes to a particular situation like

a job place or when it involves crimes.

In this article I learned that racism doesn’t have a exact punishment. There is no punishment for

racism in the US unless it reaches the level of crimes or threats of crimes against person or

property. We just need to leave it alone, you can't change it, and even trying to do anything will

make things worse. This is a big opener for me because I didn’t have a idea about the

punishment for racism. This would help me to support my background research.

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/consequences-discrimination-job-1312.html

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/nov16/vol74/num03/Let's-Talk-about-

Racism-in-Schools.aspx

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/us/racism-problem-cnn-kff-poll/index.html

https://www.simplypsychology.org/katz-braly.html
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http://www.smh.com.au/comment/stopping-racism-is-everyones-responsibility-20171004-

gytwd0.html#comments