Over the years, racism has been a widely debated topic. Whether it has gotten better or worse,

if it’s happening, where it’s happening, and even why it’s happening is some points of interest to many

people around the country. “Racism is a matter of ones definition on the subject,” which is why it is

incredibly hard to determine whether racism has actually inclined or declined over the years (Crews 1).

Racism can be defined as “the unjust discrimination against a race due to their skin color,”

(dictionary.com). Racism occurs all throughout history and is one of the most recurring themes starting

with slavery and still continuing today.

Around the time of World War II, America set up our own “concentration camps,” to hold

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American military forces had imprisoned some 50,000 Japanese nationwide, and

had no other reason than “they may be conspiring against us and we cannot afford to be attacked

internally and externally” (Le 1). Although this is not technically legal, or just, we did it and it is

considered to be one of the most racist acts committed by the U.S. government of all time.

Even before World War II, when the United States first became a nation, Americans decided that

this was their land and that all of the natives had to leave. This eventually led to the trail of tears, which

is one of the harshest movements of people across the states ever recorded. “It may seem harsh, but it

is necessary to keep the American people safe,” said Jackson during the proposal of this plan (Scott 2).

This was just his way of targeting the emotions of the scared American citizens and taking advantage of

this to pass any law that he’d like to. During the trail of tears, nearly 65% of the Indians died, and the

rest arrived in extremely bad condition due to exposure of harsh conditions and disease. Yet another