Racism
I believe people who are racist should be thrown into jail. It’s people like that who are tearing our world apart through warfare, political gain and corruption. Just imagine being separated from everyone because of the colour of your skin, is that the kind of world you want to live in?
The most important reason is that everybody is created equally the colour of your skin comes from the amount of melanin included within your skin. But more importantly than the melanin included within is what lives inside of you. Everybody is born equally but everybody gets different opportunities due to their circumstances and we all celebrate our uniqueness in different ways. In addition to this racism causes many problems such as unsettling, fighting and sometimes wars! There is also racist bullying. Most people will be racist because they’re not the same as you, especially if you’re a different colour. Racist bullies will think that their race culture or ethnicity is better than the one their bullying. Racist bullies will also refuse to get to know the one their bullying and will only focus on the differences they believe exist.
Now I’d like to turn your attention to the people who changed the world like Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King was a mighty brown man who protested peacefully as did Ghandi. Martin Luther King helped all brown people to sit anywhere on the bus freely. Before that there was a lady by the name of Rosa Parks who was thrown into jail for sitting on a bus by a white person. Martin Luther King changed all of that. That made him a hero! That should be us being heroes too!
Building on this fact, on Monday 22nd March the New Zealand Herald wrote an article about some police officers who were making violent and racial attacks. On March 7th 2000 the New Zealand Herald wrote that many psychiatrists believed Maori who are mentally ill are born that way. Would you like to be assaulted for nothing or accused of being something you aren’t? That’s why I believe we should work against this cruel racism and focus on accepting and treating all people equally.
New Zealand should not put up with this horrible situation!
By Marcus Tuigamala
