“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who claim to favor freedom, while deprecating agitation, are men who want crops without plowing the land. They want the ocean without the terrible roar of its many waters. Frederick Douglas said this in 1857 because of the constant struggle black people faced to gain their civil rights. Like many sociological ideas, racism has colloquial usage and countless everyday meanings. The sociological perspective views race as fundamentally a social category and examines race relations with reference to societal constructs and development. According to Philomena Essed in her book Understanding Everyday Racism, “The specific forms that racism takes are determined by the economic, political, social, and organizational conditions of society. » Many people are unaware of racism; people may ask how racism is integrated into our lives? Why do black people believe that people are racist towards them? These are constant questions that may not be asked but are definitely questioned. The answer is control. Control is the driver of racism. The more you can bring down a group and make them feel belittled, the easier it is to control them. Now let's take a look at the history of slavery with black people. It all began in Jamestown, Virginia, where the first slave ships had entered in August 1619. As black people resented being enslaved as indentured servants, they began to revolt against white supremacy. Revolts occurred in New York in 1712 and another in South Carolina in 1739. With these revolts, white supremacy felt like they had to change the laws to get to where black people had stricter laws. The bad part is that these laws applied to both slaves and “free Negroes” at that time. This, as I said before, puts black people under control by putting restrictions on them and telling them what they can and cannot do to scare them into not revolting and just accepting the change in progress. Philomena Essed states that "blacks in the United States have tried virtually everything in their struggle for liberation: revolt, petitions, armed attacks, economic boycotts, demonstrations, riots, lawsuits, voting, alliances, [and] black nationalism." This made black people upset and desperate, because it seemed that no matter what they tried to do, it would never be enough to end the countless struggles. Slavery had lasted for several years. Between 1820 and 1860, controversies between the north and south began to emerge..