Racism Speech for Kids
How would you like to be called names because of your cultural, beliefs, tradition or even colour? Well this is happening everywhere every day. Racism is one of the world’s MAJOR issues TODAY. A number of people are unaware of how much racism endures in our society today. Racism can be seen in incidents of racist abuse, harassment and discrimination, racism is also manifested indirectly, in the form of prejudiced attitudes and lack of recognition of cultural diversity. Racism is the discrimination of a person because of the race that they have inherited. Racism can be said to anyone. It is really serious that these things change, but these past few years, many people in all countries have been saying mean and rude things about one another’s tradition. RACISM IS BULLYING! People think its cool or fun to tease a person because of their colour, their accent, culture and sometimes even how they are not good in something, this is all racism. There are many different types of racism, for example racism because of skin colour, birth place, religion e.c.t but they all got a couple of things in common. All kinds of racism are despicable and create a negative and sometimes dangerous emotional response. Racism not only leads to social problems but in severe cases it causes mental illness and violence for example self harm, depression and the harming of others. In most cases it causes the victim to feel helpless, depressed and angry as most of youse already know from experience but what you guys didn’t is that in the most severe cases RACISM leads to suicidal thoughts and the sad thing is that in the worst cases these thoughts are carried out and its usually by a young teenager. That’s a young person with their whole life ahead of them claiming their life because a few people can’t accept them because they are a little different. Many riots have been caused all around the world due to racism. It’s just childish and if people think it’s funny they need to look at