Racism as interpreted by Sean O.

Racism as interpreted by Sean O.

When referring to the use of racism, many people view it in different aspects. For example, after the Reconstruction period had started to come to an end, a group of people called the Ku Klux Klan went out and started killing African Americans and terrorizing them. People definitely deemed those actions racist, and they have not be committed since. But there are still some small traces of racism that occur in the present day. For example, a man named Paladino, who is running for the governor of New York, presented images that were scrutinizing to President Obama by making him look like people that would not be fit for a Presidency. Now people have started to accuse Paladino of also being racist, saying that the images he out up mock the ethnicity of President Obama. They accuse Paladino of racism. But how far are we willing to scale down the evidence that one needs to accuse someone of racism. People have built up in their minds that the images express an African American person that is not fit for the Presidency. Now the problem with this is that now all different ethnicities dress similar to what Obama i wearing in this picture. So the question to refer to when looking at this picture and determining whether it is racist or not is, "Would Paladino make a picture like this of President Bush and his wife?"