Black people are still not treated equally as many different races. Today in our society being African American and being somewhere at the wrong time could end up going to jail because "blacks" are put in this type of category where they steal, kill, shoot and cause mayhem . Sometimes it doesn't seem racist to some people, just like putting Asians in the category, that they are generally intelligent because that's how Asians are. Even though we want to appear to have control over this subject, racism remains a major problem today. Racism has been used as a weapon and to cause harm, during many wars, some wars were even started because of race, for example Hitler started the war against the Jewish people. Although racism is still present today, it has diminished and most individuals are beginning to recognize that because you are a different race, it does not imply that you should be treated differently. Today's era is more open to different races, and