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The Pros And Cons Of Racism In America

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Something we should stop

Its present era in the United States of America, Racism and slavery are and has been a problem since forever but it wasn’t big until the 1700’s. People didn’t care if they were racist and they didn’t care if they abused slaves and hated on people for their color and it’s been that way for years on years but did we notice it back then or did we just notice how bad it was the past few years, Slavery was supposed to stop after the 13th amendment, but it’s still a problem and it hasn’t decreased it has increased over the decade. About 21 million people are enslaved today and it will continue to grow if nobody tries to stop it. Child Slavery wasn’t a big factor back in the 1800’s but now it 's grown larger and larger over the past few years. About 26% of slaves are children and are pushed until they can’t even walk but they still work them and it 's a cruel thing to do to kids that haven 't seen their own parents in a long time. 22% of slaves are sex slaves and are sold into prostitution and this should make you mad at this generation because look at what this generation has caused. 78% of slaves are labor slaves, they have to farm, fish, and wash dishes, if slavery doesn 't get you mad I don 't know what will because it 's grown bigger in our generation and we haven 't done anything about it we just stand around watching news about it and liking photos about it on instagram or watching stories about it on snapchat, but what we should do is stand up
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