stioned the law of blacks as stock. If the blacks weren't stock then the murdering of slaves would have been illegal. The whites are over looking the real matter of why this went to trial, the ethical treatment of blacks, and instead concerning themselves with whether the actions were within the legal arm of the law. When I took American Government in high school, my teacher said something that I never heard or thought of before. From then on it has always stuck with me and I believe it applies here. In the first sentence of the Constitution of the United States it states, "We the people of the United States of America." The original writers of the constitution didn't intend we the people to mean everyone, they were simply implying white people, not black, were covered under the constitution. This is something I never considered since America was the land of the free. Whites have always had power in the world and long have been the policy makers. Although the thought process of whites has changed and the acceptance of blacks as equal is making progress, there is still plenty of room for improvement. In this day of educated people, mass media and mass communication there is still an underlying prejudice against the black person. Things haven't changed enough to say we are equal. Time is the main component in changing this. Something that has been rooted in white backgrounds and common laws for hundreds of years doesn't change in a few decades. Here at UW-La Crosse students are required to take a minority studies class and similar programs are underway at other colleges. Education is the first step to closing the gap. The second step is changing how one perceives another who is different from them. Will the world ever be able to do away with prejudice? Or is prejudice something that is like second nature. Everyone is entitled to their own thoughts, so wouldn't that entitle everyone to having a prejudice? BibliographyD'Ag...
