Racism

ALL HUMAN BEINGS BORN FREE, WITH EQUAL DIGNITY AND RIGHTS

(Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Racism is rootedly a belief of discrimination on the basis of caste, color, creed, belives, doctrines, etc, between some human racial groups. Racism belongs to the negativity of the mind because all humans are the same. there is no difference between white and black, rich and poor. If there is any difference existing between humans that is only on the base of humanity. No white is prior over a black as no black is prior over a white and the same in the case of rich and poor.

Some overview of racial Tolerance

Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, and others, have historically faced extreme discrimination and open contradiction of civil, political, educational, social, and economic occasions. The history of people of African decline in America ,which is to say the history of America, is a metronome of progress and bumps, of retaliation, of protest. There have been allies and there have been opponents. There have been agitators, who would divide Americans on the basis of colour and class, and who would seek to lead us to common ground.Racist or religious hate incidents can take many forms including:

• verbal and physical abuse
• bullying
• threatening behavior
• online abuse
• damage to property.

Racist behaviour often results in racial discrimination, with its obvious negative consequences, ranging from simple neglect, or the avoidance of those believed to be different and inferior, to more explicit forms of harassment, exploitation, or exclusion.

Battle Of Ideas

Racism and anti-racism is first a battle of ideas. The new and shared context of globalization is not in itself transformative, the speed of communications, and the interconnectedness of the world will not lead to the demise of racism. Racism is totally an unfair deal. There would be given thousands of defense to shield racism but as the matter of fact, all are equal.

Racist incidents

A racist incident, according to the police, is any incident, including any crime, which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person’s ‘race’ or perceived ‘race’. In 2013/14, there were 47,571 ‘racist incidents’ recorded by the police in England and Wales. On average, that is about 130 incidents per day.

Deaths with a known or suspected racial element

The Institute of Race Relations monitors deaths with a known or suspected racial element in the UK.[1] Our research indicates that in the twenty years after April 1993 that there were at least 105 such deaths in the UK.

Of these, the vast majority (eighty-five) were in England, with five in Wales, twelve in Scotland and three in Northern Ireland. Within England, twenty-eight murders took place in London.

Twenty people were killed whilst at work as taxi-drivers, as shopkeepers and at pubs or clubs. Whilst the majority of the murders that we recorded involved attacks in the street, eight came from attacks on people in their homes. Of these, several were arson attacks.

http://www.irr.org.uk/research/statistics/racial-violence/#_ftnref1

Resistance and Movements

A booklet from United Against Racism notes that “Historically, resistance has taken different forms and shapes…Different groups and individuals took part in different kinds of resistance. Today we do not have to emulate them literally but we should know about the diversity of traditions of resistance.” they elaborated numerous historic and current forms of resistance with warfare, civil disobedience, and cultural resistance via art, music, theater, and literature. The site also notes that “Resistance against racism can be traced back to the opposition of native peoples of Africa, the Americas, and Asia to the European colonial yoke and to slavery. Revolts and uprisings against racist colonial rule occurred throughout centuries of European colonialism. The 1791 Haitian revolution…stands out: an army composed of former slaves repeatedly defeated the forces of big colonial powers and laid foundations for an independent black republic. Another example is the struggle of the Chechen people who resisted Russian imperialism for almost a century. Another form of resistance was maintaining the native cultures and identities of the oppressed peoples despite attempts at uprooting whole ethnic groups.

Anti-Racism Information Service (ARIS)

The Anti-Racism Information Service (ARIS) is located in Geneva and was set up to make the Convention better known and to publicize the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). It is staffed by volunteers from national and regional NGOs and human rights groups that are not represented at the United Nations. These were not the ones who could come in the count of UN representatives because it would get skeptic as if the UN involves its own persons in it. These groups are often unaware of the fact that their own country has been or will be discussed by the CERD expert panel and that they have the right of access to the work of CERD. ARIS serves human rights groups and individuals by:

1. Making official United Nations documents available to them.
2. Reporting on the discussion of their Governments’ reports and supplying on request the official report adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
3. Assisting with lobbying efforts to Governments in the countries that have ratified the Convention and are overdue in presenting reports to CERD.
4. Circulating information on which country reports are to be discussed at a forthcoming session of CERD and on the possibilities of submitting information to the expert members of the Committee.
5. Distributing United Nations press releases, promptly
6. Making information available on the procedures to be followed in filing individual complaints with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (for human rights groups in those countries that have accepted article 14 of the Convention).
7. Encouraging human rights groups in the countries that have not done so to exert pressure on their Governments to accept article 14 of the Convention.

Main Forms OF Discrimination

Discrimination can be direct or indirect. Direct discrimination, as an example, occurs when an employer denies employment to a person because of her race, color, or national origin. The intention, however, can also be deduced from the behavior of the employer. Such deduction could be drawn where an employer refuses to hire a qualified individual who is a member of a particular race and the job still remains open to candidates with similar qualifications from a different race. Unless the employer can justify that decision on legitimate grounds, such behavior would constitute direct discrimination. Discrimination can also be indirect as when institutional policies or practices have the effect of systematically excluding members of certain groups from job opportunities. This sort of discrimination is perhaps the most rampant type of discrimination. It mostly occurs when seemingly neutral job interviews are going on but if you belong to some ethnic or racial background you will ultimately be counted as an excluded person from the interview.

What Promotes Racial and Ethnic Tolerance

According to Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a 1999 survey found that about 13 percent of students ages 12–18 at school during the past six months had been called a derogatory word related to their race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, or sexual orientation. About 36 percent of these students had seen hate-related graffiti at school (Kaufman et al., 2001). What can schools do to address these types of problems and increase students’ tolerance for those who differ from themselves?

Although the statistics cited above are troubling, Killen and Stangor (2001) present a positive view of children’s and adolescents’ attitudes toward those who differ from themselves. These researchers interviewed 130 middle-class, white children ages 7 and 10, and teens age 13. Although the adolescents were more likely than the younger children to favor excluding others from peer activities on the basis of their gender or race, both groups rejected exclusion in general, citing fairness and equal rights.

Conclusion

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” — Eugene Ionesco

“The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Racism is never acceptable at any cost. A great leader like Nelson Mandela fought for black people’s life. He got jailed and sacrificed his total life to cap racism. of course, there’s no life prior on the basis of color. Everyone is given with its basic rights.No one can bully others just because it has some sort of dark completion or has belonging to some ethnic group.

COLORS, CREEDS, CASTS, BELONGINGS DO NOT MATTER IF A PERSON DOES NOT HAVE HUMANITY IN IT, NOW RATHER HE IS WHITE OR BLACK.

EVERY LIFE MATTER