ENDING RACISM

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Racism is prejudice against people because of their background or skin color. It started a long ago, where in the Western world the whites were given better jobs than the blacks. Racism was one of the leading causes of slavery, and many anti-slavery activists came up in the early 1800s to advocate for the abolition of racism and slavery. The fight against racism started a long time ago, and it is still ongoing. Many organizations around the world have come out to campaign against racism by supporting equal rights for all.
The first move towards ending racism should be letting people know what racism is and its effect on the society. This can be done by forming anti-racist activist groups and organizing peaceful demonstrations in the streets with placards having information about racism. Writing blogs about racism on social media and sharing information on how to end it can also create awareness. Racism has been linked social-economic effects, psychological problem, low self-esteem in the minor community and institutional discrimination. The only solution to these challenges is ending racism.
Racism in institutions of learning such as colleges leads to low morale of the teachers and students, poor performance by both parties. Racist behavior can be portrayed through many ways such as verbal abuse, harassment, bullying and denial of promotion or other benefits the institution should offer. Ending racism in such institutions requires that the students to be taught about racism and why it is a bad practice.

Strict regulations should be set and implemented to ensure that any act of racism does not go unpunished. The students, guardians, and staff should be well informed about their rights in relation to racism. Parents and students from all cultural backgrounds should be allowed to participate in the cultural events and sports events. The institution should adopt the use one neutral language and discourage the use of mother tongue in the school. Those who experience any form of racism should be encouraged to speak out.
When it comes to job discrimination, racism was the root cause during the early years when the African-Americans could not get jobs or be given poor jobs, unlike the whites. Workplace discrimination is still witnessed in many companies and organizations until today. The racist behavior is manifested through acts like setting rule and regulations that only favor an individual race, giving job promotions and salary increment to workers from a certain cultural background, and preserving good jobs and managerial positions for people from a particular race. The government should set up laws that govern the employment of qualified workers irrespective of their background or race. Every employee should be given a right to job promotion and salary increment as long as he or she is qualified. The lawmakers should come up with laws that advocate for equal rights for all irrespective of color. The right to vote should also be given to everyone, the idea of race-based voting should be eliminated. (Bobo, 321)
Everyone will have to be involved to end racism; the government, politicians, religious bodies, schools and institution and the community, both the affected and unaffected. By having one common goal of eliminating racism and coming up with effective ways to ensure it comes to an end. Bringing racism to an end will result in better social relation among individuals, which will create good economic growth and healthy living.
Works Cited
Bobo, Lawrence D., and Cybelle Fox. “Race, Racism, and Discrimination: Bridging Problems, Methods, and Theory in Social Psychological Research.” Social Psychology Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 4, 2003, p. 319. doi:10.2307/1519832.