Essay No.１

1. What does “democracy” mean for blacks?

　I think that to keep one nation's democracy, its government must protect its citizens from being deprived of all rights. It's because it's only them that can help all citizens vote on their own way and then selected senator makes democratic government. In reality, however, many developed nations called “democratic nations” deprive black people of such rights as equality, liberty, and so on, on the other hand their leader tell black peoples to fight for “democracy”. So it's no wonder that black people opposed joining the army.

　Then black people perhaps thought “democracy should exist for all citizens, but “democracy” in many developed nations isn't for all people but for majority of citizens, that is to say, white people”. It's because they had experienced much insult and bully from the whites in the democratic nations where democratic governments and laws should protect them from such things. In a word, “democracy” is not true democracy but just imperialism, fascism or old “democracy” that had justified slavery. For the blacks, Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 only change the form of slavery, not abolish all of it.

　Who fight for the system that oppresses them? The answer is “None”. For the blacks, “democracy”, which didn't preserve their rights, is no worthy of preserving.

　

　

　

2. What does it mean, “racism is socially created”?

　Since the time when I was not interested in discrimination, I have been often educated not to discriminate against the disabled people or foreigner. I think this is the one case that people's racism is socially created because this education affect me more or less. If this case had been completely reversal, racism might have been created in my mind. What is most important in this case is that I was educated before I came to understand whether it's right or wrong. This also applies to the case in America.

　In there, many white people had some racial discrimination because after being born, they have had to live in the circumstance where white people usually regarded black people as inferiors and tease them as if they were not human but animals. Then this environment made them have the prejudice against the blacks and justified their behavior because very few things and whites opposed such discrimination and because such thoughts got more and more familiar. To sum up, for the whites this discrimination became ordinary one of the common sense. It's not a particular habit for them.

　When being born, people probably have no prejudice, but all people join some race. And there are no doubt differences between different races. It's so easy to divide them into each race, but it's so difficult to integrate them that in history many races survive without being integrated with other races. Now there is much racism not only in America but also in the world. I'm afraid that perhaps this problem won't be solved in 21's century. This is very complex.