Racism Show Racism the Red Card What is

Racism ‘Show Racism the Red Card’

• What is Racism? – Write down your own definition in your books • The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races

With a partner discuss how you think the people in this photo are connected to racism.

During the Second World War, the Nazi party killed around six million Jewish people, one million of which were children. As well as the Jewish, they also killed another million people including gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled. Hitler and the Nazi party believed that these groups of people were biologically inferior.

With a partner discuss how you think the people in this photo are connected to racism.

Rosa Parks was an African-American who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white customer. At the time black people were only allowed to sit at the back of the bus and had to give up their seats if a white person needed it. Rosa’s refusal started a chain of events in America which contributed to the change in civil rights.

• Stephen Lawrence was a black British teenager who was stabbed to death in London while waiting for a bus. The attack had racially motivated

• 15 Year old Johnny Delaney was beaten to death in Liverpool by 2 boys (aged 15 and 16) because he was a ‘gypsy. ’ • One of the boys stamped on Johnny’s head with both feet and said he deserved it because “he was only a gypsy…”

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