Does Racism Still Exist?

When the topic of racism is brought up today, I immediately think of slavery because that's the most common form of racism. Just by looking at a man's skin color, one would be able to see what class they were in. Even though slavery was abolished in 1865, almost 150 years ago, racism still occurs. It's sad but it's true. Stacking in sports contributes to this because some races have perform better in certain positions than others. For example, quarterbacks are mainly Caucasians, whereas African-Americans play the positions such as running back, wide receiver, etc. One would ask why is that? It's because of the speed and athleticism that African-Americans possess which allows them to excel in their sport. Track athletes are also predominately African-American, Usain Bolt is currently the holder of both the world record and the Olympic record holder for sprinting in the 100m and 200m dash, destroying anyone in his heat.

As we have seen previously, people were surprised that Peter Norman, a white sprinter had as much agility as an African-American. It seems as though a race needs to predominate in any sport, if there is a majority than the sport belongs to their "people." Blacks are athletes in mainly football, basketball, and track, whites are mostly in baseball, hockey and golf. Sadly, even though people wanted to end racism, I don't think we will be able to because of the classifications that have already been put into place. People judge the first thing we see, and that's the skin color of a person, then they formulate how things will go. However, will we be able to change that? Probably not, but in my opinion I feel that we can change the thoughts that go along with the images we see. For example, instead of associating words like thug, robber, gangster, etc. with a black person they can think of how athletic they are and how smart they are. Racism has gone on for far too long in my opinion, but no one knows when it will end. People can't help what classification they are in, but they shouldn't feed into the stereotype that's already been created.