Many people have been fighting for their rights for the last hundred years. However, people are still arguing if racism has ended. Before America was even founded, blacks were sent to America to be slaves for wealthy white families. There was a time when blacks couldn’t even drink from the same fountain as whites, they couldn’t sit in the front of a bus. Whites ruled the roost, and black’s were castigated when they did things, no matter how small.
However, people still fought back. People like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, and those who were not even remembered. Those people fought for their rights, no matter how burdensome it was. One of the greatest and most remembered act was Martin Luther King’s famous speech “I have a dream”. He spoke about how he wanted his little kids to be able to live in harmony with other races, to be able to hold hands with one another.
Yet to this day, we can still see racism in our lives, even through some may not admit it. Just a few weeks ago, there was the killing of George Floyd, a man who was killed by a police officer. There have been many other scenarios like this one, where racism can still be seen. If you ask me, I would undoubtedly say that racism is still there, whether or not you want it there. I repudiate that people can be treated this way just because of their skin color. In the depths of this argument between if there is still racism, I would say, that no matter how hard that people like Rosa Parks fought, humanity just can not take it away.