Longtown Racism

The color of a person 's skin does not affect anyone according to many citizens in an Ohio town. In Longtown, Ohio, people are growing up with people of different races and were taught that a person 's color or appearance did not matter. Longtown has a history and has been recognized for giving job opportunities to not only white, but to black people too. No matter what a persons race is, they should be respected anywhere and everywhere. Longtown, Ohio is a great example of this. Black people hanging out with white people is very normal out there and has been normal for the past 200 years. In the article, “Ohio town holds rare history: Races mix freely for nearly 200 years” it says, “Black history is not talked about a lot in general.” This shows that everyone is treated with equality.

The integrated community Longtown, was founded by James Clemens. James Clemens was a slave from Virginia who was eventually freed and later became a rich farmer. Clemens was multi-racial, so the founder of Longtown had already seen no problem with mixed races. A junior at Wright State University named Connor Keiser never assigned himself a certain race, he would just tell others that he was a colored man. He said, “..my appearance is white, but my insides are not.” In the article, “Wright State student Connor Keiser works to preserve historic black settlement of Longtown,” it says “The term ‘colored’ isn’t used a whole lot anymore, but it is here in Longtown...We are of European, African and Native-American blood. The word ‘colored’ encompasses all three of those