Opinion

=Editorial=

In many ways human beings are the same. However, some members of of society have lead us to believe we are opposites because of one difference: skin color. How can one variable make or break a whole equation of interactions between different races? For centuries, humans have made other, "less civilized" or "barbaric" races out to be lower on the totem pole than themselves. These examples come from events all across time; Social Darwinism, Hitler and the Third Reich, and Japanese Racism in China and Korea during the 40's just to name a few incidences. However, racism in the 1970's is often overlooked, as the Civil Rights Movement was over. Despite this, discrimination against people of different colors was still very common in the world. A system cannot tear itself down in a small fraction of the time it was built up, after all.

Nobody can expect racial discrimination to disappear completely, but the amounts of people who do treat others unfairly because of race has gone down drastically since the 70's. Today, different races have much more opportunities than they used to, and the 70's were the decade that equal opportunities progressed. Racial equality can still be improved, though. Bit by bit, society will probably make it to a point where the first thing someone sees about another is a strong jaw or crooked nose or brilliant smile instead of a skin color. I think that humanity is headed in the right direction, so we should take our time, and the pieces of equality will all fall into place.

Racism in the United States