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The cold reality of "racism" in America is that the foundation of the country happened to be built on bloodshed, racism, and inequality. It's just a dangerously continuous escalation of certain events and actions in history that's causing the populace of the United States to be "racist." "Racism" as we call it has been in existance for several millenia. There are several factors that cause racism in this country. It goes several centuries back and continues on in today's world.

One notable event was when the Pilgrims came to the United States. They wanted to escape from England to avoid persecution at the hands of the Evangelicals. During that time, the Evangelical Christians were in control of England during the 16th century where the Puritans whom were the Pilgrims were persecuted. Due to the persecution, the Pilgrims made a pilgrim to the colonies. However, upon arriving the Pilgrims forced their faith upon the Native Americans. Aside from forcing their faith, the Pilgrims brought all sorts of sicknesses and diseases with them along the voyage.

The Pilgrims developed an immunity to these ailments. However the Native Americans weren't immune and weren't able to develop the immunity. The Natives dropped like flies and the Pilgrims could claim that it's punishment from God for not accepting him as their savior. Something severe like that is going to cause the Native Americans to hate Whites. There have been events and will be events that's going to make it difficult to quash racism. However racism in American like other countries will never be destroyed. It's a sad and cold part of reality.

There were a lot of devious and dispicable acts performed on the Native Americans for the last few centuries such as giving them all sorts of diseases, taking their land and homes, the genocides, and other acts that give Native Americans to be "racist" against Whites. This is one aspect of "racism" in America.

Another known series of events detailing racism is Civil War and the post-Civil War Reconstruction. Before and during the Civil War, Black slaves from Africa were used as slaves to work on the plantations and the homes of the plantation owners. That caused the Blacks to hate the Whites during that era. Plus the Union soldiers were racist as well.

It was depicted in the movie with Mathew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, and Denzel Washington called "Glory." The Black regiment were treated like crap though highly disciplined. They're pay was lower than a White soldier's and

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