RACISM IN AMERICA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Google Racism. Immediately, thousands of images will pop up. As you scroll through, you can’t help but to notice a majority of the images displayed are old, almost 60 years old to be exact. Anyone would infer from the outdated images of African Americans being beaten, the 60’s era signs saying “Whites Only”, and the grainy black and white images of Dr. Martin Luther King speaking publicly, that racism is a thing of the past. For how could it not be? Even Google, the largest search engine in the world, cannot find a recent picture of “racism”. This question of the existence of racism in our country today was the entire premise behind the book I analyzed called Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria. This book was authored by Beverly Tatum, current president of Spelman College, and considered to be