1.) […] In almost every audience I address, there is someone who will suggest that racism is a thing of the past. There is always someone who hasn’t noticed the stereotypical images of people of color in the media, who hasn’t observed the housing discrimination in their community, who hasn’t read the newspaper articles about racial bias in lending practices[1] among well-known banks, who isn’t aware of the racial tracking[2] pattern at the local school, who hasn’t seen the reports of rising incidents of racially motivated hate crimes in America—in short, someone who hasn’t been paying attention to issues of race. But if you are paying attention, the legacy of racism is not hard to see, and we are all affected by it.
(2.) The impact of racism begins early. Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation[3] about people different from ourselves. Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families. When I ask my students, “How many of you grew up in neighborhoods where most of the people were from the same racial group as your own?” almost every hand goes up. There is still a great deal of social segregation in our communities. Consequently, most of the early information we receive about “others”—people racially, religiously, or economically different from ourselves—does not come as the result of firsthand experience. The secondhand information we do receive has often been distorted, shaped by cultural stereotypes, and left incomplete.

I Annotated these two paragraphs, with real intentions to show my readers the problem that is still around, racism and segregation. the first thing I spotted was when the article said, "Stereotypical images of people of color in the media", If you're not a singer, athlete, president , or someone famous you wont be seen in magazines, or newspapers except if you did a crime. Racial bias In lending practices among well known banks have been happening at a high rate due to the economy such as Wells Fargo. Racially motivated hate crimes have been, and are happeing all around us, In alameda a girl was shot by a racially motivated gunman trying to kill her brother, but killed her on accident. Racism is all around us, and we alll need to be carefull with what we all say and do.

All of us hear the stories from relatives and friends, about how someone looks, or how they should at a very early age. Around second grade we were learn about "Indians" and even thought they are called native americans, and we learn abouthow they lived and what they looked like even though they are all different. Some of the problems with the world is social segregation, even though we dont realize it we do it. We all hear things from other people, we just need to weed out the truth from the words tthey speek and be just.