In the Los Angeles Time newspaper, Halford H. Fairchild wrote a commentary talking about racism and arguing that although many people racism is “obsolete and not a contemporary problem”, “racism is a current event”. He explains that many people don’t consider many of the issues in our society as racism because they are thinking of racism as the era of slavery. However, in the modern days “[racism’s] expressions [are] more disguised and subtle”.
When introducing the topic of slavery into the commentary, Fairchild goes in depth on the history of slavery and states that racism was supposed to disappear when slavery was abolished; however, perhaps without noticing, society has expend the “Ideology of white supremacy and black inferiority...with