As you have seen in the media, or maybe even viewed right in your own backyard, racism is a prominent issue throughout the United States. You have all seen the #blacklivesmatter hashtag, although a more significant movement, primarily the #alllivesmatter hashtag deserves a second look. This hashtag focuses on the masses all being severely significant in keeping the United States actually "United". Clearly, racism is a significant issue and it needs to be stopped, but what you may not know is racism isn't exclusively to African Americans. Every culture experiences some form of this segregation. I am in no way justifying racism in any form, simply bringing it to your attention that racism is not limited to African Americans.
The most evident form of racism in the media lately has been involving cops shooting or being severely harsher towards black people. In reality cop brutality and racism are two completely separate and extremely differing issues. When an African American is killed due to a cops error, the media and the masses spiral into an outrage and it's deemed that all cops are "evil" and "racist". In contrast to this when a white person is killed by a cop it's simply murder and doesn't deserve any sort of extra attention or social movement. Murder is murder, no matter what color of skin they possess and it is most definitely not a racist act only when it occurs to someone of color.
People are afraid of what is different from them and what they are used to and that is the seed from which racism derives. If a black person moved into a white neighborhood, they may experience racism and in such a diverse society especially, this is not okay. On the other side of this matter if a white person moved into a black neighborhood they may experience judgement and racism and this isn't okay either.
Similar to this if an African American man wearing wearing a shirt that read "proud to be black" you would only assume that he is proud of his culture. Opposite of this if a white man wore a shirt that read "Proud to be white" he would be seen as racist and rude. Why is there a double standard? The reality is every culture experiences racism throughout the United States.
Every life matters and there should not be racism and such crude double standards in our great nation. We all need to make an effort to support one another and be all together. So rather than picking up a gun and mass firing at the people only out to protect us, we need to educate ourselves further on this matter. Racism is found everywhere and rather than turning to violent acts we as the United States need to "Unite" to end racist slander because #alllivesmatter.
