Malachai

Despite the argument that racial issues in today’s society have been effectively removing themselves, there is still a strong undertone of racial importance in our nation. While it is true that present day clashes concerning race are less frequent, that has not effectively eliminated the problem. Even though many people keep their racial views quieted, there have still been events that have revealed a much more aggravated situation. For example, crises in our nation have unleashed strong displays of racism in many people. In the aftermath of the World Trade Center Bombing, there was a strong movement that categorized people from the
Middle East as terrorists. Our nation became prejudice and that air developed into racism. Our government has even embraced this mentality. Another example was Hurricane Katrina. 

“Some 71% of blacks say the disaster shows that racial inequality remains a major problem in
America, according to a survey by the

Pew
Research
Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 6-7 among 1,000 Americans; 56% of whites feel this was not a particularly important lesson.And while 66% of blacks think the government’s response would have been faster if most of the victims had been white, 77% of whites disagreed.”-USA Today, (tomorrow the world) 

This passage from usatoday.com just helps to show how many people lie in ignorance of racism. This survey helps to show how people of all ethnicities can find something to fault in another race, just as they can act out against a race all the while ignorant or in denial of these same actions. All of these things simply help to prove that despite the belief of some, racism remains a strong factor among today’s social problems. If we are to amend this rift caused by race, then we must first come to terms with the racism that exists in ourselves. Only then can this problem of race be mended. It is quite possible that this rift will never fully mend, but hopefully time will fix that which others have destroyed: racial unity.

This article actually did relate to Huck Finn. Racism was a strong theme in the book just as it is in this article. For example, almost everyone that Huck meets along the way believes themselves to be superior to a slave. At that time, blacks were accepted as an inferior race. Thus the people of that time were extremely racist. Even Mark Twain himself while he did write of the liberty and integrity, he also factored in the superiority of the white man in his books. All blacks were considered inferior in some way. There is even a section where Jim discusses how he is going to get an abolitionist to steal his children for him. This article fits in with this because it is discussing how the social rift created by the slave system is still with us today- in the form of racism.