Prejudice and Racism Today :: Sociology Racism Prejudice Essays

...Everybody jumped on him, beat the hell out of him...  Everybody was collisionhim or kicking him.  One guy was kicking at his spine.  some modern(prenominal) guy hitting onthe side of the face...  He was unconscious.  He was bleeding. Everybody had crosscurrent on their forearms.  We ran back up the hill laughing... He should havedied...  He lost so much blood he turned white.  He got what he deserved(Ridgeway 167.)         The skinheads who per yeared this random act of racial military force in 1990,had no reason to brutally beat their victim other than the fact that he wasMexican (Ridgeway 167).  Racism is objectively defined as any practice of ethnicdiscrimination or segregation.  Fortunately, racial ferocity is steadilydeclining as the turn of the century approaches.   Now a new variation of racialism,covert racism, has recently sprung from the pressures of political correctness.This new form of racism, although slow declining, still shows signs of strongsupport (Piazza 86).  secrecy racism assumes a form of civil disobedience againstpolitically correct thought and speech. Essentially, covert racism is a hiddenracism, or a racism not easily detected (Piazza 78).  Racism is still stronglyprevalent in todays order of magnitude (Gudorf 3).         The three variant basic forms of racism, open racism, violent racism,and covert racism all tell forms of hatred towards distinct ethnic groups(Bender 47).  These basic forms of racism, although different in form, all havethe same main purpose, to promote racism. circularise racism verbalizees freedom ofracial thought and speech.  stretch out racialists promote their views through with(predicate) strictlypersuasionary tactics.  This form of racism is allowed in our society because ofthe First Amendment.  Open racism is currently almost nonexistent and steadilydeclin ing, because it is considered politically wild and sociallyunacceptable. Violent racism promotes racism through violence, fear, andpersuasionary tactics (Leone 49)  This form of racism is not protected by theFirst Amendment because it promotes violence to express its ideas.Unfortunately many violent racial groups claim they do not promote violence, andtherefore these groups are protected by the First Amendment because not enoughsufficient evidence exists to prove their violent intent (Ridgeway 123).         Covert racism expresses ideas of racism in disguised forms sometimesthe covert racist is not even aware of the fact that he is racist.  Racism, itis asserted, is no long-lived blatant people nowadays are reluctant to expressopenly their dislike of and contempt for minorities, indeed are not prepared toexpress publicly a sentiment that could be interpretted as racist.  Racism, itis said, is subtle it is disguised, unploughed out of si ght (Enrlich 73)  The