Racism is defined in so many ways. Even without the use of speech, someone can express racist remarks through their body language in response to his/her feelings and how they view the other person to which racist attitude is directed (Gaertner, 63). In the past, I thought of racism as something that happened some time back and is no longer a serious issue in the United States but some interesting facts that I have come across prove otherwise. A simple definition of racism as per a majority of dictionaries, for example, the Oxford dictionary, is a hatred directed towards a certain person just because of differences in their language, birthplace, customs, and worst of all, skin color. With time, I have come to believe that this racist behavior has a long-lasting impact on society. As immoral as it may sound some people out there still do instigate racist remarks on innocent little children but it is interesting to note that as much as this does immensely impact them, it does not entirely break them up. A YouTube video documentary called “A Girl like Me” that was produced by a Teen filmmaking enterprise called Reel Works portrays several African American girls talking of how the society portrays them as not smart, not being beautiful, and many other racist attributes. What however troubles me the most, is that this has created some inward feeling of inferiority or dislike to themselves. In the documentary as much as according to popular perception including my perception that by them applying hair relaxers to their hair to make it more relaxed, they look even more stunningly beautiful, on the other hand, it might just be a manifestation of a distorted self-image (Kiri, 1). As disgusting as it may sound, the African American children when faced with choosing a black doll or a white doll up to 15 out of the 20 kids pick the white dolls for the simple reason that they do not like the black ones. I, therefore, do believe that this racism issue that used to be so widespread some time back has impacted the American nation in a very big way. It is no wonder that this form of discrimination is known to have caused the worst wars in the world and led to nations being formed together with all forms of legal codes. My initial belief about racism especially directed towards the African Americans was that it was always generated from other races and was mostly directed to teenagers or grownups and not children. This small documentary however only proves that racism is indeed directed even to young kids. These young kids through their preference for White Dolls and perception that black dolls are not beautiful only prove that racism has been internalized in them through stigmatization and discrimination. This portrays the start of the development of a poor self-image. Racist attitudes against African Americans were mostly based on the poor perception of their abilities to deliver especially intellectually. It is widely believed that many successful African Americans who grew up during the height of racism were more driven to succeed and disapprove of this notion. Although not much is told about Charles’s childhood in the Journal for Jordan, he is portrayed to have experienced some discrimination stings as an African American (Canedy, 74). Charles in his letter to Jordan asks of his son not to judge a person based on skin color, religion, or beliefs. Instead, this father believes that this diversity of race should enable us to learn from each other thus realizing the adv