Reconstruction Era Racism

Today racism is still an immense issue and although it has made leaps and bounds progress since the Reconstruction-Era there are still many issues in the political system dealing with racism. One thing that has not changed much since the Reconstruction-Era is that many whites feel they are superior over blacks and they try to limit their rights. For example, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn even though Pap is just a drunken troubled man he believes that a black man should not have the right to vote and that he is better than a black man who actually has a successful job. This issue still goes on today because with the election of the first black president it brought back a lot of the controversy on blacks rights. Some white people today still believe that they are superior just because the color of …show more content…
However, racism today is not just directed at African American’s it has expanded to encompass most ethnic minorities. Part of Trump’s pledge in his campaign is that a wall needs to be built between the United States and Mexico and Mexico should pay for it. This is just one of his many racists comments that only add to the already occurring issues of racism today. Even though Jim Crow laws are now a thing of the past that does not mean that discrimination and racist views are as well. Often times today when someone sees a person from the middle east or from mexico or from any other country they assume that they may be a terrorist or they deserve to be treated worse based on their ethnic background. However, those are just stereotypes that have developed over time. Racism has pretty much always existed, just in different forms and the same underlying issues have always been there. We have made drastic efforts to help the issue of discrimination and in most cases today we try to eliminate it as much as possible but it's almost