Past---->Present---->Future?

Racial discrimination is something that has been a very important issue in the past, the present, and now some are forced to question if it will still be a problem in the future. In the past, many African Americans have been treated with little respect, causing them to fight for their freedoms. While we have advanced technologically, financially, and in many other ways, our society is still faced with the question of if it has advanced freedoms for blacks society. In the past, blacks were faced with unfair trials, unfair educations, and in some cases were even killed for no apparent reason. On February 5th, 1999, an African American man was killed for by 4 white policemen for no reason. The reports said that the 22 year old man was shot 41 times in the entrance of his apartment building. After reading this article, I was completely shocked by the fact that white police men could feel that they had so much more power over another human being simply because of their skin color. The policemen that shot this innocent man did not even say that there was a clear reason for why they acted in the violent way they did. The black man was not armed, and was not causing any harm to the policemen, making their actions in murdering this man completely unacceptable and unforgivable. The impact that this may have on African Americans is a very negative one because it causes them to go back to the stage of fear that they had been living their lives in, before the Civil War. Whites are not superior to blacks, and therefore should not by any means get away with unacceptable actions of this kind. While for a long time many thought that our Country had moved forward from these kind of incidents, and that blacks had gained rights, recent tragedies have shown otherwise. Recently, on January 12th 2012, a landlord in Cincinnati put a sign on her pool that denied entry of any blacks into the pool. Her reasoning behind this racist act towards an entire group of people was because of a black girls hair products that had run off of her hair into the pool. This recent act of discrimination proves that blacks are still being discriminated against today and that it needs to be stopped. We have seen racist acts against blacks in the past, we have seen them in the present, and we must make sure that this kind of discrimination does not occur in the future.