Since the beginning of American history, white people have always slaughtered other people of color. From the Native Americans that had their land taken away and the African Americans that had their freedom taken away, the cause of their problems were the white men. The article isn’t that strong of a topic of racism, but it begins to stem from the fact that police are today’s terrorist which is also a subject of another one of my illustrations. When we think of a terrorist, what do we imagine? Probably a muslim or someone of middle eastern descent. I’m guilty of that as well, because of how it’s been engraved in our minds because of the racism that is alive today that puts it onto that certain stereotype. In fact, the most severe acts of terror were caused by Christian or extremist right white men. However, when these men perform their terrorism, there is always something that the media from that group will do that will disassociate them from the terrorist and make it seem like they did it of their own accord and that neither Christianity nor their political views had any sort of persuasion to their actions. Not only are these groups defending themselves but they are also defending those terrorists because of their race and thus the association between a white man and terrorist are not there. However, when it is a person of different color, there is no one speaking out saying that their actions weren’t persuaded by their religion or race.
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