Racism is not only around today- racism has been around for a long time. It became a huge issue in the United States when we started to bring slaves over from Africa. The racism grew after the civil war when the blacks were freed from the bondage of slavery. Racism hit a high around the time the "Jim Crow Laws" were passed. Blacks and whites were segregated; each had to use their different sections of …showed first 75 words of 999 total…

…showed last 75 words of 999 total…in the time of Maya Angelou. Today racism is mostly in jobs (for what I can see), and in the time of Maya Angelou it was life and death in some cases. Nevertheless, racism hurts everyone it comes into contact with, whether it be physical or emotional, racism is wrong. Yes, all of us are different. All of us are people; therefore we should do to others, as we would have them do to us.