Racism

Racism is a big part of today's society. People are abused on a daily basis around the world unnecessarily. There are many different factors as to why people are racist, but at the end of the day people are people, we are all the same no matter what colour we are. There are many famous racists. One famous group of racists are the ku klux klan, they began in America and they were said to be protecting the rights of the white Americans, but they did this through violence. In the past the ku klux klan had many many members, but nowadays has seen a decline in the number of people in the far right hate group. This could be because people have come to accept others into their countries and lives.

There are many racist political parties, for example the BNP (British National Party), the leader of this party is Nick Griffin, the views of the BNP are virtually the same as the views of the Ku Klux Klan but less radical. Nowadays the BNP have toned their views down, and this is attracting more and more people to vote for them.

The National Front or le Front National is a political party in France who have the same far right views as the BNP. In 2002 Jean Marie Le Pen (pictured above) gained the second highest number of votes in the election. This was a shock many of the French and in the second round of voting he was overwhelmingly beat by Jaques Chirac.

There are other famous people who have been claimed to have been racist such as Jade Goody in the big brother house towards Shlipa Shetty, also in the same series towards the same person Jo O'Meara and Danielle LLoyd.

Another famous celebrity who was sacked after being famous was Ron Atkinson for making a racist remark towards Marcel Desailly. Click here to read more on this story.