Cycle of Racism

As we talked in class today about our final essay, which was about the existence of a cycle in American history. I read an article today that proved to me that there indeed is a cycle existing in American history today, and it is not a positive one. An African American man working at a warehouse in Tennessee, recently filed a complaint for his supervisor's discriminatory behavior against him. The worker has been discriminated for months, and he finally decided to record one of the conversations he had with his supervisor. In the recording, a shocking conversation could be heard that reminds the listeners of something from the Jim Crow days. The worker asks the supervisor if he could use the microwave, and the supervisor responds with a "hell no!". When asked why, he answered it was because the worker was not white. At a different time when the worker wanted to use the water fountain, the supervisor responded with the same reaction. A voice can be heard on the recording saying, "I need to put a sign here that says, 'white people only'". Federal Compress, which is the company that hired the supervisor, said it has a zero tolerance policy towards discrimination and the worker's supervisor was immediately fired.
After reading this article, it became clear to me that racism still exists in America today, and it is just lurking around in many places in society.  I believe racism taking in the form of violence has mostly disappeared from modern society but verbal racism still exists. I wrote a similar blog post the other day about a police commissioner making a racist comment about president Obama. In both cases, verbal racism took place and outsiders had to report to authority to have the racism stopped, in this case the victim himself. Verbal racism has been existing in America since the age of slavery, where it all started from addressing African Americans as the n-word. In our society now, the n-word and other derogatory words are used pretty normally in media, and in between people. I believe the cycle of verbal racism will continue on forever no matter what. Unlike physical violence, speaking is a very simple and easy task. Racist people who cannot express their discriminatory thoughts by violence are now doing it verbally and no one can control what they say except for themselves. If these racist people don't decide to completely eliminate their racist thoughts, verbal racism will never end.