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The belief that some races are better than others, and the actions which result from those beliefs.
"You're judged before you could stand up for yourself."

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A vandal scrawled a racist message at - "The burial ground, which dates from the mid-1630s to 1795 and became a National Historic Landmark in 1993, contains more than 15,000 intact skeletal remains of enslaved and free Africans who lived and worked in colonial New York."
- "Fifteenth, 1870 - This granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.""
- "Harlem Renaissance 1920s - This movement of 1920s in the New York city neighborhood offered a new cultural identity to the African American Society.  This was more of an cultural or social movement than political which influenced generation of black writers and artists."
- "MLK'S Dream, 1963 - Arguably the most prominent civil rights activist in American History. Dr King uttered  “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”"

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- After being arrested, African-Americans are 33% more likely than whites to be detained while facing a felony trial in New York.
- In 2010, the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that African-American receive 10% longer sentences than whites though the federal system for the same crimes.
- In 2012, 51% of Americans expressed anti-black sentiments in a poll: a 3% increase from 2008
- A survey in 2011 reveled that 52% of non-hispanic whites expressed anti-Hispanics attitudes
- In a 2009 report, 2/3 of the criminals receiving life sentences were non-whites. In New York, it is 83%.

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- Speak up & confront
- Do not let racists/racism have a place for this world, do not let it be accepted.
- Be openminded, make an effort to view others who are different.
- Explorer the familiar
- Think before you speak. no assumptions
- Support anti-prejudice & anti-rasists organization