Is it necessary?

Racism in America has been around since the beginning of time. In the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King fought to stop the discrimination against people of color which led to the passage of the Civil Right Movement in 1964. However, until these days there is still racism. Many people are closed minded when it comes to changing their feelings about people of other races or getting to know them. A perfect example to support that leads me to the movie Lone Star which we recently watched in class. The movie took place in Texas border town in the 1990s. It’s a story about people of different ethnicity's (Black, White, and Latino) who face with difficult social problem because of racism.
As an immigrant living in the U.S., I witnessed racism. It was laughed at and teased in school because of my foreign accent. It was difficult for me to pronounce the words properly because of my French accent. Today, one can believe that racism doesn’t exist anymore in the U.S. since we have an African American as president. But many people predict that he will be assassinated just like Martin Luther King was. Isn’t that still racism? Racism has been around since the beginning of time and I don’t think it’s going away anytime soon because most American are intolerant of other races and think they are superior to everyone.