What Is Sex-Based Discrimination Affect Segregation In The United States

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There has been racism since America can remember and it all started in the 1800's back when white people had colored people as slaves.

Racism back in the 1900's it was hard for colored people to get well paid jobs and most of all in the 1960's colored people would be born in Jim crow hospitals for parents who lived in a ghetto, the children going toJim crow schools where theyprobablydon't have the enough education to go tocollage, and even the churches had to besegregated because if they don't the church would be in trouble, the colored had to go to a" Negro church" as they call it, if the colored peopleare Americancitizens isn't the government taking away there freedom of religion?

Now to the segregation ofthe present, and the way that persist today is because there are groups of people who think that the colored people should still be slaves, for example the "KKK" is one of those groups of people, the way that segregation works today is that one of them is bullying, cyberbullying, and some crimes such as murder, and the way cyberbullying affect segregation is that the youth now use websites such as Facebook, Instagram, etc.

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