A Gradual Decline in Prejudice between Places and People in North and South

Discrimination and prejudice are widely known in United States history. In the 1960's the civil rights movement demanded legislation and passed laws, which banned discrimination. Five decades later, it still continues in our society. Discrimination and prejudice occur when a group of people feel they are superior to another, and can be based on a person's color, race, national origin, religion, sex and gay couples.

Racism is a disturbing and brutal topic. People over look racism because they don't feel that their opinion is going to affect the community. The question often asked is “How has racism changed” and “Has racism gotten better or worse?” I am on the fence with this particular topic. Today, we have no more segregation in the United States, this means no more separate water fountains, bathrooms, schools, blacks don't have to sit at the back of busses, etc. Although, there has been more brutal acts of racially motivated acts against all races. Obviously there's still racism, it’s not just going to disappear, it’s always going to be here. It’s all about people’s opinions, it’s not like a fact that can be proven wrong. Racism has changed in many different ways since the 1930s.

Do you believe that racism has changed since the 1930's? What if there were people that told you that it hasn’t changed much because of all of the racist things going on in the world. Yes, racism changed when the Civil War has ended but whites are still treating blacks like absolute garbage. The reason that the Black Lives Matter started was because blacks are sick and tired of being treated like garbage and so they are bringing this topic up more and more with the news, media, internet, social media, etc. It’s not just black lives matter it's all lives matter no matter what race, religion, where you are from, etc. What is racism, racism is one group of people feeling like they have greater power over another group of people it doesn’t matter what that group of people did and or look like. Race is something that people can’t control, such as their hair color, skin color, where they are from, what heritage, they have, and all the other stupid things people see as a problem, for example.

Racism has been an ongoing problem for decades, but now it has evolved into more complications rather than black people versus white people and wanting equality.

Racism. The belief that one race or religion is superior compared to another. Racism has been around for hundreds of years. It has been a great controversy for a long time. Racism was such a big issue in the late 1800s. However, the biggest question is, has racism really changed since the early 1900s? Many people believe it has changed greatly but others believe it is still something that is in need of more attention. I agree with how the racism has changed, but as a community we still have a long way to go from here.

“The unemployment rate among blacks is about double among whites, as it has been for more than six decades” (Desilver). Some say that prejudice can still be seen in the modern world today. Prejudice is when a negative assumption is made about a person because they have a different opinion, race, or religion than others. In the modern world many people still have negative viewpoints towards people with no reasoning. Prejudice are not only seen today but also seen in 1933 in Maycomb, Alabama.

Racism has come a long way since the start of the country and the end of slavery. It has become much less commonplace in society and many believe that it has completely left our society. This is simply untrue. Many believe that racism ended with the civil rights movement, but racism still has a very real and vast impact on today’s society, affecting mental health and economic status. Racism has a very significant and broad impact on today’s society.

Lee and Bean argue that in the U.S today while “racial boundaries may be fading, they are not disappearing at the same pace for all groups” (Lee Jennifer, Frank D Bean, Beyond Black and White). Lee and Bean argue that in our current society, it is no longer a white and non white racial structure, it’s argued now that our society is forming a new color line that is “less rigid for Latinos and Asians than blacks” (Lee Jennifer, Frank D Bean, Beyond Black and White). This new color line that is being created focuses less on racial background and more on integration, and skin color, the new structure is everyone else in society with only African Americans still being strongly excluded. Non black minorities such as Asians and Latinos are starting to become more “white” and gain greater benefits in society because of their higher rates of intermarriage with whites, stronger levels of assimilation into white society, and therefore greater integration into white culture. With these benefits come better job opportunities, social mobility, and most importantly access to better education. However since the color line still disadvantages African Americans I tried to create a policy to combat educational inequality among the color line and hopefully break down these barriers. My policy would raise taxes and create more funding for schools that are located in segregated African American neighborhoods, “37% of African Americans students attend a school that is almost entirely black”

This discussion for this week’s forum post provided room for great discussions and arguments on if these decisions are solely economic or prejudice. While you argue it is economic, I argue prejudice exists in these decision making processes. Although, I can see and understand your point of view. It hits closer to home for me. It appears too coincident that there is 55+ hazardous waste sites in the Metro-Atlanta area when the average number of waste sites in a Georgia county is three (GreenLaw, 2011). The majority of the Metro-Atlanta area has 90%, or more, non-white population. Studies also show that there is a disproportionate availability of fundamental resources in minority and low-income communities (GreenLaw, 2011). In addition, on my way to work, in the Metro-Atlanta area, I see hazardous waste sites, landfills, scrap yards, and train tracks all

We are not born racist, rather, we are taught racism, creating societal dilemmas. It is an attitude established by one’s feeling of superiority or one who feels that someone “different” from them is inferior. During the Reconstruction period, the idea that equality among blacks and whites could be obtained was short-lived and as years passed it became increasingly clear. It did not deliver on equality. Instead, it birthed the idea of separate, but equal and used as a way to stunt the growth of African-American people. As racism in the 1920’s heightened, there was no contrasting difference living in the north than living in the south. Ossian Sweet, a man born in the south faced numerous adversities as he strives for a more desirable way of living.

An American is a man, a woman, a child who came to the U.S. and started to grow and flourish to become the men and women that feel pride for their country and the freedoms they have through salutes to the country and leaving behind their past heritage to become a citizen of the U.S. We as Americans have very well tried to become who we are today by not being prejudice and not being without freedoms. We strive to be the best we can by saying our pledge of allegiances and our doing as much as we can for our country. Just as my grandfather does every morning by saluting of the flag always hanging in his yard up high.

Her classmates also have an effect of her. They seem to think that because she is not beautiful; she is not worth anything except to laugh a her . As if it were not bad enough being teased by kids, adults also had did the same thing to her. Mr.

This shows social prejudice by thinking that the town is poor that no one is smart. This is important because if Harper Lee did not include this quote we would not know that back then if you are poor you were classified as uneducated and not smart. Which can be described as social prejudice. The third quote from the book that shows social prejudice is “Impatience crept into Mrs. Caroline's voice: “Here Walter, come and get it”(Lee, 1960, p 25). This quote connects to the prior quote and that she thinks giving money will help cure poorness. But, there is a word that makes this quote special, and it's “impatience”. Mrs. Caroline is getting angry that Walter won't take her money. Harper Lee is implying that Mrs. Caroline thinks she is “right” and there is no other way to cure poorness. She is almost like demanding him to take the money he can't pay back. This is important because Harper Lee is showing the social prejudice that Mrs. Caroline has with the

In this modern world, prejudice is still a universal problem we still have yet to overcome. Although it is true that our society is much less prejudiced than it was 40-50 years ago, we are still struggling to create racial harmony in a world that is so diverse in terms of racial group, sexual orientations, ethnicity, nationality, religions, and so on. I think the core of prejudice comes from stereotyping, which is the generalization of motives, characteristics, or behavior to an entire group of people. In the world where media propaganda is ubiquitous, often times most stereotypes are not formed on valid experiences, instead they are based on images publicized by the mass media, or even created within our heads after seeing and hearing examples from many different sources, like movies, or even hearsay. Stereotyping is more powerful than we think, because it allows those false pictures to control our thinking that leads us to assign uniform characteristics to any person in a group, without consideration of the actual difference between members of that particular group.

American History X is a great film that portrays prejudice, stereotyping and conformity. Prejudice is negative attitudes toward others based on their gender, religion, race, or membership in a particular group. Prejudice involves beliefs and emotions that can turn into hatred. Having an opinion or idea about a member of a group without really knowing that individual is a part of prejudice. Some people make judgments about a whole group of people without knowing very much about them. Sometimes people are afraid of those who seem different from them and unfortunately, they express that with name-calling and negative treatment. When people grow up with these ideas, sometimes it's hard to get rid of them. Like in the