Racism Impact On American Communities Essay

There are many things I had learned from the PowerPoint-Economic History of Racism and each one of these things still impacting American communities in a negative way. These things are like the negative part of our past that always find a way to come back to our minds. The three things that called my attention the most and that still impacting American communities today are the followings. First, the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 passed by the Congress. This law “making the federal government an active collaborator with Southern slaveholders in returning escaped slaves to their masters.” This law makes free blacks, who had escaped to slave free states, go back to be slaves against after they were already free. This was very unfair, as we all know the entire period of slavery in the United States was as well. Slavery was very violent and traumatizing, but this law in specific, I feel is very disrespectful and still making many of us feel powerless, even though this law doesn’t exist any more people get angry and their minds get affected when thinking about it.

This still impacting American communities today, I think this is one of the reasons why as today the percent of poverty is higher in minorities people than in white people. If you have land then you have power in a way or another. We can see an example of this in the percent of young poverty in “Washington State: 30% of Latinos, 34% of Black youth, and 32% of Native youth are poor vs. the 12% of white youth.” As we can see young minorities are more likely to be