Racism

When I was a child, I had my first experience with racism in Springfield, Missouri. My family and I had moved from Memphis, Tennessee to Springfield, Missouri. It was in this awful city that I was introduced to the hate and dislike that is racism. The people who lived behind us were extremely racist and they would make all kinds of racial remarks whenever they would see my siblings and I out playing in the backyard. We would tell our parents and they would tell us to ignore the ignorance of others. Well, it was an awful feeling to be singled out and ridiculed due to my skin color. I even had to ride the bus with these kids. At school, the racism was even worst. at lunch these three boys would stick their hands in my lunch and says, are you going to eat that ******. I would try to follow the instructions of my mother and report it to the teacher, but she would never do anything about it. I read about the racism that my grandparents had to endure, so in my day it was an eye opener to even think that racism was still going on. As an adult, I am even more aware of the racism that still goes on, but is a little less obvious than what it use to be. Though, change has been made we still have a long, long way to go.

I decided to learn about racism in Japan, I was really surprised to see how Japan shows racism to foreigners, blacks, and hispanics. I was so out done by reading how they exclude blacks and foreigners from using their restrooms, eating in their restaurants, and shunning away from them in public places. I even read that they discriminated in the areas of healthcare, employment, and housing. This type of racisme would be detrimental to the well being of young children whose parents had to move to this country due to job relocations. They would have to endure smirks and jeers of racist young Japanese children and they would more than like suffer from maltreatment if they are denied health care due to their race. I would have never thought of that Japan was a racist country. I must say I learn something new everyday.