Racism has, in the past and present, caused death and has changed many people’s lives. In the early years of America we know that the slave owners would brutally beat their slaves, and call them horrid names, just because of the color of the slaves’ skin. In the 1960s there was the Civil rights movement to end the unequal segregation between whites and blacks, again so much violence for no reason but the hatred of someone’s race. Many would say that there’s hardly any racism today, but that’s not what Jon Bastian says in his article, “How Did Pit Bulls Get Such a Bad Rap.” In Bastian’s article he explains how pit bulls are not their stereotype through context and logic. Bastian begins by explaining the history of the pit bull; he tells us that, “in times of war, they marched off to battle with their humans,” with the context he used he pulled on our heart strings. The way the author worded the sentence makes us somewhat believe that they are loyal to their masters, they literally fought battles with them. He also tells us that the pit bulls were taught to attack bulls to subdue them, it eventually became to be a contest where “spectators placed bets on which dog would hold on the longest, or bring the bull down,” telling us that it’s not the dogs fault for being violent, it’s their masters for making a life threatening game for them. Later in the article the author tells the reader that from “the turn of the century up until the early 1980s there is exactly one dog attack story to make the national papers and mention pit bulls,” again using context to explain that pit bulls are generally not aggressive by nature. In that particular instance in 1947 a man purposefully sent 26 dogs to attack a woman, Bastian show us that even when the dogs are violent they were provoked by someone, or were merely being loyal to their owners. With proof, the author tells us that not until 1986 there