White people were prejudice against colored people. Racism is the belief that physical distinctive of a group determines their strengths and that one group is naturally better than other groups. Black Americans were thought to be weaker, less intelligent and overall less valued. Racism also had a place during the colonial period in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Most blacks didn't come by choice, but by force. People thought slavery was essential to the nation's wealth. After we won the Revolutionary War a new nation called the United States of America was taking shape. "Discrimination