2/18/11

I am going to write on the dicussion we had in class about racism.
In 11th grade I did a paper on the KKK and all the information I found out about it surprised me. I had no idea that there was still groups around that treat black people so bad. I grew up in a small town and either my freshman year or sophomore year my school receive a African American and a Mexican in the same year. My school accepted them but we were more exciting that we had someone that would be good at basketball (another big stereotype) and turns out he wasn't very good. I try not to be racist towards African Americans but I do know that sometimes I am.
South Dakota is really racist towards Native Americans. Most white people in South Dakota have a nickname for them that is not school appropriate. Growing up in a small town, for sports we played reservations and whenever we did we had to be escorted by the police in and out of the building. During sports our coaches would always say "we are playing Indians are next game so todays practice will be slack" I have grown up around racism towards Native Americans and that is all I know. But, my brother recently married a Native American and I can tell that the racism has gone down some but not much.
I do believe that in South Dakota the reason we dislike Native Americans so much is because our tax money goes towards them. That is one of the main reasons many white people do not like Indians. In South Dakota the racism towards Native Americans is related to the racism towards African Americans in the south.