Racism

Racism has existed since ancient times, and this was due to slavery.

In the past the Greeks believed that they were better than their slaves.

But, racism as such, it is a modern concept that has its first manifestations in Europe and the Spanish colonies in America during the Modern Age.

THE PURITY OF BLOOD

According to the historians this was one of the first manifestations of racism, and this used and racism like strategy of marginalization this manifestation appeared in the fifteenth century in Spain

This manifestation ordered persecution, deportation and death of any Jew from Spain

In the Spanish colonies of America the purity of blood was applied in order to justify the superiority of the Spanish over the Indians, the slaves from Africa and mestizos, establishing a detailed hierarchy between races called "caste system ".

Racism, and European Imperialism

Racism was used from the last Decades of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, Especially by European Countries to justify the legality of actions of colonial domination and genocide in the world.

For example the Europeans justified superiority, on African peoples, to colonize and and distribute the African territory.

The wars against "the Indian" in America

In America, racism also played an important role in legitimizing  " The wars against the Indian" who carried out Argentina, Chile, and the United States (in the second half of the nineteenth century.)

In these wars thousands of Indians died.

Nazi racism and the Holocaust

When Adolf Hitler was young , he was obsessed with ideas about race. He believed, in racial "purity" and in the superiority of the "Germanic race"—what he called an Aryan "master race."

When Hitler and the Nazis came to power,

They persecuted Jews, gypsies to forcing them to forced labor in the concentration camps, or kill them .

Approximately 6 million European Jews were deported and exterminated during the second World War

American racism and the struggle for "civil rights"

In 1863 Abraham Lincoln abolished the slavery

However racism continued.

In the south, the discrimination was clearly marked

However  The resistance was organized and so emerged the Black Panthers inspired by the  leaders like Malcolm X.

But it was Martin Luther King who assumed leadership of the peace movement in defense of civil rights for African Americans. The activist was assassinated in 1968.

Racism today

Today hatred and racism have not disappeared, the challenges are still great.

however racism is less than in the past

There is still work to be done, however, but I feel we are going in the right direction. The victory of Barack Obama is an example

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