Racism is a certain kind of prejudice, based on faulty reasoning and inflexible generalizations toward a specific group. The word prejudice comes from the Latin noun praejudicium, which means a judgment based on previous decisions formed before the facts were known. If a person allows their prejudiced beliefs to block the progress of another, it is discrimination. Those who exclude all members of a race from certain types of employment, housing, political rights, educational opportunities, …showed first 75 words of 1351 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1351 total…when he states, Just watch the black and white children playing and going to school together; they don't care if their friends are white or black; they just care about sharing common interests. It's only when adults start putting that racial bigotry and prejudice into the minds of the children that they begin to think about race. The children can teach the adults about how to learn from, respect and get along with one another.