WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Why shouldn't YOU be racist?

Being racist won't realy make you look like this.This advertisement show the affects that racism has not only on the victim but on the person who is being rasist. Racism is a very harmful and distructive action make you a be seen as a very norw minded person. I believe that no person should be judged on the colour of their skin as it does not difine the type of person they are. SO STOP RACISM!

Why are we different?

Race it is just a word. A part of language. Does race really difine who you are? While your watching this vedio I would like you to think about:
What realy is race?
Does it difine a person?
I think it doesn't. why should someone be judged on a physical feacture they cant change? No one can change where they come from or what ethnic group they belong to. So why is race so important?

Why is it important to stop racism?

Racism is a very important issue that harm a lot of poeple not only does it effect people physically but can have severe emotional concequences as racism can leave people feeling unwanted in society and as if they do not belong due to their race, religion,ethnic background or gender. This needs to stop!

Examples of racism:

"People laught at my acient when I started school in kent. It made me feel as if i was unwanted and didn't belong in the school"

"One day when I was on the bus, and this british woman wanted to sit down on the bus and told me to get up. I refused as I was sitting there first; when she called me a 'immigrant and told me to go back to were I came from'."

WHY DOES RACISM  STILL CONTINUE?

"Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color."

We are all different colours but we are still the same.

We were all born. We will all die.

Youth against racism in Europe.

Youth against Racism in Europe (YRE) is a campaigning international youth organisation, active in 16 countries in Europe.

YRE was launched by an international demonstration of 40,000 people against racism in Brussels, in October 1992.

We keep in touch regularly with each other about what is happening in different countries and how we can build international campaigns against racism.

Broken Chains International

Broken chains is a Human rights organization which provides various areas of help, such as  providing education sources to defeat major areas of discrimination.We study and address matters which are occurring around the world today, our aim is to inspire and unite others regardless of religion, sexuality, race or gender. Broken Chains fights for the needs of human equality, we also respond to those who are victims of conflicts and natural disasters. We provide the basic needs and support to those who have been victims of these causes.

For more information visit: http://www.broken-chains.org/

Crawley Campaign Against Racism

                     The Crawley campaign against racism aims:

• To combat racism in all its forms
• To create contacts between every group in the community thus furthering racial harmony
• To inform people of the dangers of racist/fascist organisations, particularly at election time 

for more information please visit http://crawley-ccar.blogspot.com/

YOUR rights!!!

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 1.

• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

  Article 2.

• Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

I have a Dream Speech

Some inspiring thoughts...

Harry A. Blackmun

“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”

   

Martin Luther King

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

Malcom X

“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.”

William Blake

THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
by: William Blake (1757-1827)

Y mother bore me in the southern wild,

And I am black, but O, my soul is white!

White as an angel is the English child,

But I am black, as if bereaved of light.

 

My mother taught me underneath a tree,

And, sitting down before the heat of day,

She took me on her lap and kissèd me,

And, pointing to the East, began to say:

 

'Look at the rising sun: there God does live,

And gives His light, and gives His heat away,

And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive

Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.

 

'And we are put on earth a little space,

That we may learn to bear the beams of love;

And these black bodies and this sunburnt face

Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

 

'For when our souls have learn'd the heat to bear,

The cloud will vanish, we shall hear His voice,

Saying, "Come out from the grove, my love and care,

And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice."'

 

Thus did my mother say, and kissèd me,

And thus I say to little English boy.

When I from black and he from white cloud free,

And round the tent of God like lambs we joy,

 

I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear

To lean in joy upon our Father's knee;

And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,

And be like him, and he will then love me.

Have you read this?

Noughts and Crosses

Sephy and Callum have been best friends since childhood, and now they are older and they realise they want more from each other. But the harsh realities of lives lived in a segregated society are beginning to take their toll: Callum is a nought--a second-class citizen in a world dominated by the Crosses--and Sephy is a Cross, and the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country. The barriers they would have to cross to be together at first seem little more than minor obstacles to the two idealistic teenagers, but soon those barriers threaten not only their friendship but their lives.

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE BOOK?

What can I do to help stop racism and discrimination?

There are many things you can to try and stop racism and discrimination one of the ways you could do this is by trying to educate people and change their views. You can do this by getting people from different culture and have them educate each other on their culture because racism and discrimination is caused lack of understanding. Good Luck. 

How did it go?

Racism. Stop it!

A poem to make you think.

Racism has a human heart....Racism has a human heart, An artery of cruelty & death, It has blood of anger, & evil…, Has a force of pain & antipathy. Racism has a human mind…. An Intellect of terror & delusion, Has an emotion of extreme savage Imagination of vile ideas, macabre. Racism has a human mouth, It has tongue of torture, depravity, Many teeth of brutal incision & kill Has a lip of sorrow, hate & death. JOHN NELSON 4-Mar-09

Is Racism Taught?

Where Do YOU Think People Get Their Attitudes From?

The Stephen Lawrence Case

Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager (born 13 September 1974) from Eltham, southeast London, was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993.

After the initial investigation, five suspects were arrested but never convicted.

 It was suggested during the course of investigation that the murder had a racist motive and that Lawrence was killed because he was black, and that the handling of the case by the police and Crown Prosecution Service was affected by issues of race leading to an inquiry.

In 1999, an inquiry headed by Sir William Macpherson examined the original Metropolitan police investigation and concluded that the force was "institutionally racist" and has been called 'one of the most important moments in the modern history of criminal justice in Britain'. 

This led to the publication of the Macpherson Report 1999, which investigated institutional racism within the Metropolitan police.

On 18 May 2011, it was announced that one of the original suspects, and another man, are to stand trial for the murder.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE WAY THAT THIS CASE WAS HANDLED? AND THE 


FACT THAT THE MURDER WAS RACIALLY MOTIVATED?

What is this blog all about?

This blog has been created to help the fight against racism and discrimination. This blog is here to listen to the views of the public and encourage people to combat the growing problem that is racism and discrimination.

Why is Racism and Discrimination such a problem?

'87,000 people from black or minority ethnic communities said they had been a victim of a racially motivated crime. They had suffered 49,000 violent attacks, with 4,000 being wounded. At the same time 92,000 white people said they had also fallen victim of a racially motivated crime. The number of violent attacks against whites reached 77,000, while the number of white people who reported being wounded was five times the number of black and minority ethnic victims at 20,000. Most of the offenders (57%) in the racially motivated crimes identified in the British Crime Survey are not white. White victims said 82% of offenders were not white.’