illegally harvested data from millions of facebook accounts. now every day all over the world people suffer discrimination because of the color of their skin their nationality or their ethnic origin racism seen a phobia and intolerance affect millions to draw attention to the problem the united nations has declared today international day for the elimination of racial discrimination now this day commemorates the massacre in the township of sharp phil in south africa on the twenty first of march nineteenth sixty thousands gathered to protest against the country's of racist apartheid laws police opened fire into the crowd and the result was tragic sixty nine black people were killed. and one hundred eighty wounded many were shot in the back as they tried to flee nearly sixty years later much has changed in south africa and the rest of the world but racism still persists and throughout the day we'll be looking at how racism is