DON’T BE RACIST: OBSERVATIONS OF RACISM WITHIN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

In the textbook Sociology A Down-to-Earth Approach, James M. Henslin repeats a phrase coined in 1903 by Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois ‘The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races.’ This is phrase that all American should take into deep consideration in regards to how humans treat one another because of the various skin colors there are in today’s society. In fact, most Americans are 99.9% similar to the people whom they believe to be the most different from, and the.1% difference that all humans have to one another is the most obvious to the naked eye, which is skin color, was said to my Sociology 1 class by Sociologist Frances Vu. Henslin