Racism in our society For years there has been a separation between the races in which some whites felt superior to minorities. Growing up we were always taught from the beginning what racial profiling is and who it is primarily classified as. Being a child, one could never imagine how soon reality would come. In the case of African Americans during the civil rights era, the most common belief was that they were less than human. “The Recoloring of Campus Life,” by Shelby Steele, analyzes these theories and provides real-life experiences of what she endured growing up and what this generation of college students is facing. For some, leaving home for the first time is a struggle in itself, but for African American and Caucasian students, the combined feelings of anxiety and guilt play a large role in students' emotional and mental states. African Americans have yet to live with the assumption that by looking at the color of their skin, they are inferior. The most common stereotypes about African Americans are that they are lazy, ignorant, stupid, loud, always late (CP time), and sexually promiscuous. Some Caucasian students have had the audacity to openly harass African-American students on college campuses across the country. For example, Steele states that "at Yale last year, a swastika and the words 'white power' were painted on the university's African-American cultural center, and in Madison members of one of the campus's major fraternities held a mock slave auction in ​​whose painted promises their faces were black and they wore afro wigs", just to name a few. Page 173-1 Steele also states that he feels as if "these incidents seem like adolescent pranks, though not necessarily harmless. There is meanness in them, but not much threat; no one is proposing reinstating Jim Crow on college campuses." Page 174-3 Being a college student one could never understand the need for another person to do amateur stunts on him and then turn around and look harmless. There is no need for anyone, regardless of race, to intentionally belittle someone of the opposite genetic strain. Racism on Campus was what you might call a fact-based movie. Any grotesque act performed or verbal action committed caused a scene. People didn't know that what they were doing was hurting not only themselves, but also the people around them. In those days it was clear that "white people" didn't care what feelings they might shatter and what dreams they might crush...