The Evolution of Racism

Welcome to the Simply Straight Talk show. Today we are talking about racism and discrimination. How you see race in the United States can depend a lot on your own background.

Racial imbalance in the criminal justice system has been in the news for the last several years following a string of high-profile occurrences of unarmed black Americans being killed by police, like Eric Garner in New York City, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Philando Castile in Minnesota.

Although the United States has come a long way since the days of slavery, and the progressive steps that were made towards granting equal rights on the basis of race in the 1960s, racism is still a very serious problem in the United States today. Sometimes it is blatant and open, but often it can be more subtle, or even built into the system, such as racial profiling or indirect discrimination. 

We want to discuss how this negative behavior has evolved but also address some ways to deal with it in a more responsible manner.

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