Racism goes further than the Middle Ages. Racism dates back to the time when first people left Africa to travel the continents and the color of their skin changed to better adopt to the environment. Once they met up again, the variations of the human skin color were jarring and frightening->racism.
The people of the Renaissance, who subjugated the Natives and Africans did not believe in equlity for those different from the Europeans. They honestly thought that the darker skins were inferior in religion and intelect, therefore they saw nothing wrong with enslaving them. As oppose to now, when people know about equality, and still practice racism. When it is so obvious that DNA is 98% same, and skin has nothing to do with spirituality or smarts.
They're just disgusting.

When you really boil it down racism comes from ignorance. The kind of ignorance that led you to write (incompetently) an essay about racism in which nearly every statement is easily proved false, and whose message is short-sighted and offensive.

I think that there will always be racism, unless somehow the whole world merges as one race or something. I also think that racism is very black and white. One person would see it one way, and the other would see it very different. I don't really think racism still exists because of all that history, but rather just becasue some people need something to hate, and make fun of.

Anyway, what's the point to racism..?

Interesting essay. I've been reading about Reverse Racism since it first came up in the newspapers in the 90's.

There are some factual problems with your essay.

"Black Plague", I assume your talking about bubonic plague, also known as black death. That came to Europe from China. The only times it was used as a weapon was by the various Asian armies which threw diseased bodies into besieged cities. Europeans using it against Europeans in much the same way, and the Japanese in WW2 against the Chinese.

Also the Atomic Bomb was originally meant to be used against Germany. It had less to do with race, and more to be a message to everyone saying don't do that again.

Now Racism was not a European invention. The Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Arabs, Zulu's and many others would point to other groups and claim that they were inferior. The Japanese would point to certain details of the Chinese features, and claim they were inferior and vice versa. When the Dutch were invading South Africa and wiping out the short race of people that lived there, the Zulu's were marching down from the North and doing the same. Arabs introduced the slave trade to Africa seeing the Africans as inferior. The Europeans were late comers.

This doesn't excuse what was done by the Europeans. They obliterated a number of civilizations in North America, and overturned, and destroyed countless countries.

But this is not an excuse for reverse racism. I'm metis, my father is a Native American. But because I look white and refuse to get a status card, I'm affected by this. Is this fair?

None of my ancestors have shot, killed, or enslaved anyone for at least two hundred years. No one in my family had anything to do with the vile residential schools, and the government is finally paying the survivors back for that atrocity. So why should I be blamed for what I had nothing to do with?

In certain cases I can understand not trusting Whites. The Native students of residential schools, here in Canada is one of the few times I'll say they have a reason for it. But if you hate me because your great-great grandfather was a slave, you're simply giving yourself an excuse to fail.

avoiding the several grammatical errors (i'm a nut for grammar, what can i say?), this essay raises interesting issues and some good points. it's true, the reverse racism that this generation is witnessing and being subject to should be expected, and, in some ways, it is justified by a very basic action-reaction rule. but i can't help but point out the obvious...does that make it right? THAT is the question i believe you should be asking. no matter whether the hatred of the white race is a "blatant and spiteful lie" or a "cold truth" (how can hatred be a lie or a truth, at any rate? hatred is an emotion...it can be justified or misdirected, it cannot be fact or fiction), the question should be directed at the morality of the situation. it is true that the past has been unfair to scores of races, but is that a reason to be unfair to anyone in present or future society?...and on another note, the blame that is directed towards a single race (white/caucasian) as a whole in your essay : is that not racism in itself? "The Ku Klux Klan, Nazism, Civil Rights, the Trail of Tears, The Black Plague, the atomic bomb, the slaughter of the Incas and Aztecs etc…all can be attributed to one race of people." First of all, Nazism was not an issue that every white citizen of the world supported (as witnessed by the extensive WORLD WAR II that resulted in Hitler's extremeties). The Civil Rights movement was an effort to equalize rights for ALL citizens of the united states. The atomic bomb (although a deadly and disturbing weapon of destruction) ended a war that could have lasted for twice as long as it already had. Do you still want to BLAME the white race as a whole for these deeds? my advice to you concerning this point is to avoid broad and blameful accusations if you want to write a winning argumentative. Consider the fact that racism is itself wrong; how can you truly justify something that is inherently wrong? a faint animosity (as a reaction to the past) could be understood. however, the hatred that is targeted at white society today is unneccessary. the only way to get past the world's history of racism is forgiveness; reciprocated racism is not that, and it, in fact, forges new animosity in our generation. The next time you wonder whether reverse-racism is justified, think about your children, your grandchildren, even your great-grandchildren: do you want them to grow up in a nation that tip-toes around racism, a nation that caves into injustice in fear of another civil war? Or would you rather have them grow up aware of the past, and what has been overcome through the decades?