Racism is a certain kind of prejudice, based on faulty reasoning and inflexible generalizations toward a specific group. The word prejudice comes from the Latin noun praejudicium, which means a judgment based on previous decisions formed before the facts were known. If a person allows their prejudiced beliefs to block the progress of another, it is discrimination. Those who exclude all members of a race from certain types of employment, housing, political rights, educational opportunities, …showed first 75 words of 1345 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1345 total…we don’t even realize what we say, the jokes we tell or the music we listen to. Some think of some major issues as a joke but really there is always someone being hurt whether they show it or not. Today we stand for equality, justice and freedom. Where Canada and America stand on racism and discrimination today and tomorrow is where we stand because we are what is needed to stop the hate.