Racism

Racism Must Stop

Racism is one of those issues we can talk for hours about. Everyone has their opinion about what racism means and what that is for them. People have been through racism (many times), which has a lot of impact on their lives.

Agnes Laurens
The Life Essence
Published in
9 min readMar 3, 2020

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Let stop right here and just take a look at what racism exactly means, accordingly to the Oxford dictionary: “Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized: a program to combat racism. The belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another: theories of racism.”

Prejudice

According to the Oxford dictionary, this means: “An unreasonable dislike of or preference for a person, group, custom, etc., especially when it is based on their race, religion, sex, etc.”

When John — a white young man at the age of 27 years old — has a conversation with his girlfriend Sarah, he says he doesn’t like his Morrocan boys at his work, because they have a dark skin color. John always gives…

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Agnes Laurens
The Life Essence

Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in The Netherlands, with three daughters. https://linktr.ee/alaurens