Joe's modern racism blog

                   Obviously racism in America has decreased since the times of the Freedom Riders and the time period To Kill a Mocking Bird is taken place in. However it is still a problem that exists. Racism now is sprinkled lightly throughout the United States. Many people still hold racists beliefs because of their ancestors racist roots; although this is truly sad, this is nailed and preached into the children at a young age. This is not the only way people form a racist side, other events also spark a racist belief in people too. 9/11 a very tragic event, sadly sparked racist beliefs into many Americans towards Muslims. Just as the movie Gran Torino portrayed some war veterans hold a racist belief due to the terrible things war brings.
                  Racism has also become a lighter topic in today's world. Racism is often used as a comical subject in media. Jokes are now even labeled as Racist jokes, these jokes poke fun at races. Usually without trying to intentionally hurt someone's feeling, however some may take it the wrong way. As a minority I do come by racist jokes from friends, I am a person that does not take offense to racist jokes; and i do not really mind them. I feel that the biggest problem is racism due to generalization, often times a small group of people ruin a whole race for one person. Some of the most well known cases of this are hate towards Muslims due to Muslim extremist attacks around the world.