The Importance of Race in Our Culture

In our modern free-spoken society, there is a word that we still hold taboo. A word with a terrible history of being used to abuse, oppress, and subdue. Just six little letters all jumbled together that cause damage that we may never mend. Here I recommend Tim Mention's song Prejudice. He starts off with this dark blue lighting with a subdued tone. Red lights come up on stage and the shift in music is much more upbeat. The answer is obvious. Race and racism, as manifested in slavery, segregation, lynchings, Jim Crow, profiling, and police brutality, is America's original sin? Whereas we have no history of prejudice and bigotry based