The Illusive Race Question & Class

The Illusive Race 1

Running Head : THE ILLUSIVE RACE

The Illusive Race Question and Class

The Illusive Race 2

Racism Alive and Well in Another Form

Abraham Lincoln once said , With malice toward , with charity for all , with

firmness in the right , as God gives us to see the right , let us strive on to finish the work we are in

to bind up the nation 's wounds (cited in Franklin 1993 ' This sentiment has been expressed

many times since the absolution of slavery in 1870 . Yet with every

step we take towards

eradicating racism , we fail to see it encroach in an insidious and malicious manner . We have

been led to think that this epidemic is about the color of a man 's skin In the Illusive Race

Question and class it states , Racism resembles bacteria . It has the uncanny ability to resist

Cures (Acusa ,

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First Steps

Our first biggest step toward eradicating racism in this country was President Lincoln 's signing

of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1 , 1863 . Although the document had very little

power to free slaves , it was considered an Act of Justice ' It was a cry for America to wake up

and understand that All men are created Equal . One hundred years later Vice President Lyndon

B . Johnson said , Until justice is blind , until education is unaware of race , until opportunity is

unconcerned with the color of men 's skins , emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact (cited...