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What is ? This is a question that has plagued our nation since the 1960's. The term itself was coined during this decade. The problem has actually existed since the founding of our country. And the issue of discrimination has been around for much longer than t ....

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.... slavery to the new world". But at the time, Columbus was commended for having done so. The racism did not end there. Discrimination was everywhere, but no person had the means to address it as a problem, or fight to end it. It wasn't until 1862 that a political figure formally acknowledged the problem. The Emancipation Proclamation was addressed by president Abraham Lincoln in 1862. It was enforced in the beginning of the following year, stating "all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion of the United States shall be then henceforth a ....