Persuasive Essay on Racism

Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, there is always somebody different. The American society focuses on differences and not similarities of other people.
Imagine walking down the street and having people stare at you or call you names, or talk behind your back. Imagine not knowing the time because nobody will tell you. Why won't they tell you the time, or spare you some change? Because you are black. Actually, because your skin is a different color, or because you are a different kind of religion. In a way I admire them because they've survived for hundreds of years until they were free, and now that they're free, the modern white man harasses them and beats them. I mean, they even had a world wide organization named for them. The KKK has been around for a while. The KKK, or Ku Klux Klan, began because of their intense hatred of black and Jewish people. Valerie Joseph, author of " A Monument To Racism," writes that in front of Danny Carver's house, a KKK leader, in Flowery Branch, Georgia, were 8 or more signs, that read: "A brain is a terrible thing to waste, that's why niggers don't have one." Another sign read; "NAACP" or "Niggers, Alligators, Apes, Coons, and Possums." Or insisting that blacks don't have brains and that they should be treated like animals. …