Racism: Prejudicial Of Different Types Of Discrimination

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“Racism isn’t born folks it’s taught. I have a two-year old son and you know what he hates? Naps. End of the list.” -Denis Leary. Discrimination is an unjust or prejudicial of treatment of different categories of people. It has always been apart of history and it still is today but it comes in different categories from racism to gender and to hate crimes that has been going on for centuries.
We hear a lot about racism, which is another category of discrimination, and we all aware when this happens. Most people think discrimination is just against African Americans when it’s not. It is also against Muslims, Christians, illegal immigrants, Chinese, and even Caucasians. Racism isn’t an act of love and it definitely isn’t politically correct to

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