What is a slave? A slave is a tool, a total servant, and a possession. Being a possession, a slave is required to total obedience to a master who has the power to do anything to a slave. The so-called "freeman" really is a slave. Freedom means, to carry out ones own choices, actions without coercion or constraint by necessity or circumstances. Even when we live in freedom are we really free? Do we really have the choices to do everything our heart, mind, and body desires to do? It was the same with being a slave in the 1800's or even being the color black at that time. The law stated you were a freeman but truly if you were black were you free?
             Harriet Jacobs was a very inspirational author. She wrote the book "Incidents in the life of a slave girl". This book taught me a lot of things about slavery and how mistreated they were at that era especially women. She was sexually harassed and always misunderstood. She was kept away from her kids for more than 5 years watching only from a little hole behind the house. She dealt a lot when she was known as a free slave and when she was a slave. The nightmare for slavery finished when the emancipation proclamation came out but a new nightmare was to take place. One that was worse for it was prevalent but was secret and silent. One that exists today. One that does not shrink but rather grows. Racism was and is upon us.
             Ku Klux Klan, Neo Nazis, and The Aryan Nations, The American Nazi Party. What are these groups? Why are they present in a land of supposed equality of all men? They are there, because there are millions of Americans that believe in their message of white pride. The African American population is growing and Americans are now a mixed group of people. Black people are in white people's neighborhoods; they are doctors, and friends. With a growing unity between the two races, why does racism continue? The answer is simple. Racists from...