Remembering Rosa Parks - Racism

50 years ago on Decemebr 1st 1955, Rosa Parks stand-up to her rights by refusing to vacate her seat on a public bus for a white man. Her steely determination, courage, and “civil disobedience” to make a difference galvanized America’s civil rights movement, and gave momentum to the awareness of the evils of racism. She fought for justice and she changed the World !!! Rosa Parks died on Oct 25, 2005 at the age of 92.
Her contributions to make this world a better place is inmeasurable. I have my greatest respect for this “little” women. She is the icon of human dignity of our times. May her legacy lives on. Let us all make a little extra efforts to mark her death as a new beginning of greater awareness and eradication of this crime against humanity – Racisms.
On our part, to make a personal difference in this world, only takes a little efforts from all of us. We should make that efforts to understand what is “racisms”, having understand that, take the initiative to respect people of different faiths and ethnicities. We should also refrain from making fun, incite hatred, discriminates, whether directly or indirectly, in words, thoughts, and deeds against people of other faiths and ethnicities.

Wikipedia, the free encyclodia, defines racisms as :
“Racism refers to the beliefs and practices that assume inherent and significant differences exist between the genetics of various groups of human beings, that assume these differences can be measured on a ranked, hierarchical scale, and that result in the social, political, and economic advantage of one group in relation to others. Racism as a term is usually applied to actions by a dominant group in a society on others. Weaker groups are unlikely to practice racism publicly on a more dominant or powerful group, as they would effectively be unable to. This highlights the difference between oppression and repression.
In general, racism separates groups of people on the basis of race with the intent of viewing one race as more valuable and others as less valuable. The belief that the character and abilities of individuals are correlated with their race is not necessarily racism, since this can be asserted without implying an inequality in value, though whether or not all racialism implies racism is a matter of some dispute. But the application of this belief in dealing with members of that race, especially with little regard for variations within "races", is known as racial prejudice. Granting or withholding rights or privileges based on race or refusing to associate with persons based on race is racial discrimination.
Sometimes racism refers to beliefs, practices, and institutions that discriminate against people based on their perceived or ascribed race. There is a growing, but somewhat controversial, opinion that racism is a system of oppression — a nexus of racist beliefs, whether explicit, tacit or unconscious; practices; organizations and institutions that combine to discriminate against and societally marginalize a class of people who share a common racial designation, based on that designation.
In some countries, accusations of racism are alleged to be used by supporters of cultural relativism and political correctness to stigmatise their adversaries due to the association between racism and extreme violence in parts of the twentieth century.
Since the last quarter of the 20th century, there have been few in developed nations who describe themselves as racist, so that identification of a group or person as racist is nearly always controversial. Racism is regarded by many as an affront to basic human dignity and a violation of human rights. A number of international treaties have sought to end racism.“