There were many problems with police officers killing black men during riots. Many times the men had complied and yet they were still shot and killed. This is an event that shows that there may not be verbal attacks against African Americans, but there are real acts that are shown where Black people are still being misjudged and that's not right. Times have changed and our society has evolved, but unfortunately there is still this racism that Hegel illustrates in his text towards people of color. While reading this text I felt that Africans were designed to be seen as inferior and therefore needed to be Christianized and Westernized. This didn't make sense to me because the same things don't work for everyone. This is why there are different religions, people can believe whatever they choose to believe. Hegel on the other hand made me see him as an ignorant racist who only saw one right way of doing things through religion. For example, Hegel states that Africans used “magic” and offerings of rocks or animals as a form of sacrifice. He says this isn't right, that they need to believe in God and not this "magic" they choose to believe in. I would not be proud if my social group were described by an outsider the way Hegel described Africans. This is because Hegel made assumptions and relied on his observations. He didn't sit down with the people of Africa to listen to their reasoning, but simply attacked them for being different. It would depress me if my social group were attacked the same way Hegel attacked innocent Africans. Racism is the program of mistreatment, discrimination, or segregation of others based on their membership in a racial or ethnic group. Therefore, I believe that Hegel is a racist because he was discriminatory towards these African people
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