Racism exists merely because of the persistent adherence to the social construction of categorizing people. The United States was and currently may still be a racist country and can well be proven by historical events in the American society. Racist laws, Supreme Court decisions, government policies, and techniques of enforcement well demonstrate the types of oppression, exploitation, exclusion, persecution, and collective degradation on the racial communities of Indians, Blacks, Asians and Mexicans. Although it may be evident that the United States may be labeled as a racist country, the country has finally realized and acknowledged this fact, thus better its morals and beliefs as time progresses.
             Racist laws, government policies and techniques of enforcement through Supreme Court decisions exploited Indians through various ways. For example, in the years after the War of 1812, white people were pushing towards a solution to the Indian problem. Thus, "this led the federal government ... to embark on another program, known as Indian removal," which basically meant that all Indians had to move from their homes east of the Mississippi, towards west of the river (Dinnerstein 38). This removal policy was in the favor of those who leaned towards gradual assimilation of the tribesmen, who wanted to isolate the Indians from the frontiersmen. It was mainly used to seclude Indians from the white Americans who were spreading in the frontier rapidly. Furthermore, Andrew Jackson cemented the process when Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, "which provided funds to buy tribal holdings and to pay the costs of relocation ... the Indians had to move or be destroyed." (Dinnerstein 39).
             The Indians were not the only persecuted and collectively degraded ethnicity more prevalently was the blacks. Although they were oppressed throughout history, beginning in the times of early colonialism and slavery, one of the most mo...