The Issue of Racism

A sensational incident recently happened in the fashion industry, which was the crime of John Galliano, a world-known chief designer of Christian Dior. He made a seriously vicious criticism to a woman next to his table at a bar in Paris. He declared that he loves Hitler, and all the Jewish should be dead. His malignant statement had been recorded and uploaded on Youtube by the people in the bar. Galliano was soon charged with slander and got fired by Dior. The incident brought up the controversial issue again about “should people get fired because he/she is a racist”? I approve the concept that racism people should get fired because of the following points.

First, racists may have the inclination of committing crimes. They are aggressive to slander, or abuse the group of the race they disliked. Some of them even think those “lower races” should be eliminated and killed. The famous example of racism is the Holocaust to the Jewish by Hitler. The Jews were sent to camps, killed by the poisonous gas. He killed millions of innocent European Jews from children to adults during the World War II. That was one of the cruelest genocides in the world. It is reasonable to fire racists because their violent tendency will cause tremendously racial conflicts.

The second point is that I think all the occupations should not involve with bias. Once a person is biased in work, his/her decision is impartial and prejudiced. The customers or colleagues in different race or religion probably will be treated unfairly. For instance, in a court, if a judge has a bias in favor of white people and there are two suspects of burglary, one is white and the other is black, he will think the black person is the burglar and bring him in a verdict of guilty. But the white guy is the real criminal. From this example, we can see the lack of objective judgment is inappropriate for any occupation.

People are all equal is the third reason. “All men are created equal” is a famous quote from Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. The quote refers that no one has the right to possess, or to control others. No one should be a slave of another person because of the color of his/her skin. For example, in the old time, African slaves had been discriminated and been treated as property forcing to work in many countries such as America, Spain, France, etc. They could be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth. The system of slavery totally deprived the human rights of African people. Thus, we should not make the same mistake fight against the human rights.

Racists believe that there are inherent differences in people’s traits and capacities that are entirely due to their race. They believe that some races are better than others. In my opinion, I agree with their belief in some way because people do born differently, some are smart, intelligent, and some are not. But people’s intelligence is not determined by their race. Everyone does not have to right to choose the race and the color. Moreover, there is no direct evidence to prove their belief. Take Albert Einstein for example. Although his race was persecuted by the German, his theory of relativity made him one of the greatest men in the world. In fact, this example directly proves that the racial hygiene of the racism is foolish and wrong.

In conclusion, the above three points give reasonable and clear explanations about why racists are ineligible in the workplace. Their characteristics of violent inclination, racial discrimination, and depriving of human rights are inappropriate for any job. In the case of John Galliano at the beginning, his verbal abuse to others was harmful enough to get him fired. It is reasonable for Dior to fire him because of his misbehavior. However, people should set a model of civilization but cause hatred between races to countries, especially celebrity.

Written by William (674 words)