Civil Rights Discrimination

As children grow up, they become the person they turn out to be because of experiences and the culture and society they grew up in. Nations are affected in the same sense because the people living in a nation affect how the nation is influenced and builds its character.

I was watching the news, when the footage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster came on. The news reporters were showing a black man walking in flooded waters near a market with a bag full of food and labeled him a “thief”. Social media in the United States has portrayed people of different racial backgrounds differently and unequally in recent years. In the essays “Theories and Constructs of Race” and “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?” the authors discuss in both essays about issues with racial equality in our world today. Authors Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe discuss in the first essay racial schemes are created through prejudices and the telling and retelling of stories. While, authors Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado discuss in their essay about the issue of “colorblindness” in social media. Holtzman is a professor of communications and journalism at Webster University, while Sharpe is a professor at Webster as well. Similarly, Harris and Carbado are professors at UCLA’s School of Law and have addressed widely on race, gender, civil rights and constitutional issues. Both essays do a good job at explaining their ideas and supporting them with evidence of racial discrimination in our world today. The authors from both essays organize their ideas and summarize them, which helps understand the main idea of racism, discrimination and racial inequalities in today’s society.

Another legal case that was reviewed, and is a directly correlated to EEOC and Civil Rights discrimination issues is the Alaimo v. Thompsonville Fire District #2 and Collen Ann Reidy. In this case we again see Civil Rights Act violations as well as Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 under 29 USC § 791 and Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 violations (Phelan, 2015). Additionally, we see State of Connecticut Workers Compensation Retaliation Violations related to Conn. Gen. § 31-290a and Conn. Gen. § 31-76b. In this case we again see retaliation against Alaimo for he didn’t agree with a politicians plans not to build a new fire station. Instead of following the laws, statues, regulations and policies as they relate to an employee the Commissioners

For several years throughout U.S. history, there held a strong belief that African Americans were inferior to white Americans. After the Civil War (1861-1865), millions of former enslaved African Americans sought that they would now be able to be a part of the greater community as full and equal citizens. However, although some white Americans welcomed them, most white Americans did not. Instead, these white Americans targeted and discriminated against African Americans simply because of their race and cultural background. In particular, one way African Americans were discriminated against by white Americans included the segregation of public and private schools in the United States. Before the ruling of the legendary court case, Brown

“Walmart to ban woman who told customer to 'go back to Mexico,' called another the N-word”(O’Sullivan 1). This is unfortunately the headline of a recent hateful event that happened in Arkansas, United States.

The United States has been battling between the two notions of what it should look like- predominantly white, and Christian or a country that is globally interconnected. The United States so far has been trying to pursue the ideal white, Christian nation through legal and social practices. Legally there were policies being established, so that certain ethnic groups could not enter the United States, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, Immigration Act, Page Act and so on (Daniels, 2004). Each of these acts had a goal and it was to remove the unknown. The underlying racial bias that is hidden behind these acts are reflected in the actions that were taken upon these ethnic groups. The amount of discrimination that they faced because by “virtue

Racial discrimination has been an issue in the United States since its founding. Specifically, African Americans have had limited rights and opportunities because of their skin color. Thankfully though, the years have brought laws and regulations that improve the lives of colored individuals. These changes include the right to vote, own property, and even interact freely with the white communities. Despite these vast improvements, there are still aspects in the United States government that are not in favor of the colored community; one of these aspects is the judicial system and sentencing. Throughout history and even today, blacks face harsher and longer punishments than whites for comparable crimes. It is estimated that punishments placed on “black males in the federal system are nearly 20 percent longer than those imposed on white males convicted of similar

Race and ethnicity within the United States is socially constructed to keep the white elite within power, while poor underrepresented social classes suffer from systematic oppression. Through history laws have been implemented to keep Jews, Latinos and African Americans from migrating into developing communities which hinders their access to public resources.

Martin Luther King Jr. once said. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” After all of the history the world has with slavery, and racism, all that we’ve gone through, and have come from it’s about time that we put our differences aside, and accept each other for what we are, and aren’t. "Racism is based on the belief that physical characteristics account for differences in character and ability, and that a particular race is superior to another." Racism has been going on since before anyone can remember whether it was owning a slave, killing another person just because of the color of his or her skin complexion, or making a racial joke about a classmate. Nobody is

Do Americans feel like there is still racial discrimination in today's everyday life? Racial discrimination is treating someone differently because of the color of his or her skin. Racial discrimination has been around for a long time. There are laws that are supposed to protect non whites from being racially discriminated against but these laws are not applied to everyone equally. There are a lot of different types of discrimination such as gender and age but the main type is racial. Racial discrimination still exist in America based on discrimination at work, police brutality, and arrest rates.

Has anyone ever said they didn’t like you before they have ever met you? Have you done that to somebody else? Well this is a serious issue since discrimination and racial profile is a reoccurring struggle throughout history; This struggle doesn’t just happen to one race or ethnicity it happens to everyone of the. Several races struggle with establishing their identities due to the shadow of their ancestors, other countries and other people’s views based on differences, and by racial profile by judging a person by the color of their skin and the cultures and their beliefs.

There have been many instances that led people to believe that there is discrimination amongst African-Americans in the United States. The workplace, criminal justice system, education system, and health care systems are all places that has been said to treat African-Americans differently from other races. There has more severe forms of discrimination amongst African-Americans from as early as the 1950’s. African-Americans were forced to go to separate schools, use separate restrooms, sit on different areas of the bus, inappropriately harassed by the police and faced so many more harsh realities. As a result, these problems African-Americans faced have definitely been improved but still occur little more often in today’s society. Things are more unified from compared to the past like being able to sit next anyone you want to on the bus, everyone uses the same restroom, and everyone is allowed to attend the same schools. Are there still problems even though the circumstances have changed? Yes. The form of discrimination has been seen in all aspects especially the criminal justice system.

Racial prejudice in the workplace today presents itself in a different fashion than it did in the past, and can be hard to identify. However its effects are still present, impacting hiring processes, wage compensation, feedback, and promotion, and ultimately playing a role in the career paths of people of color. This report will briefly examine three articles focused on the topic of modern workplace racism, the connections to the world of business, and potential solutions to the issue.

In 2017, racial discrimination continues to threaten the lives of African Americans in the United States within the justice and school systems. Although The psychological effects of racial discrimination are complex and not fully understood, its impact on the victimized groups or individuals are catastrophic. The Declaration of Independence, states, “that all men are created equal,” yet these words do not ring true for all Americans. In fact, historically and presently, African Americans become excluded from that equality. While this exclusion fosters discrimination throughout various sectors of our lives, it primarily, negatively follows us in the unblinded justice system and unequal classrooms. These two forms of racial discriminations are dangerous to the lives of African Americans because they breed an inequality, that renders African American citizens casualties.

Is racial bias an epidemic among law enforcement? The long history of racial tension between law enforcement and the public, namely in communities of color, certainly suggest so. The distrusts of the criminal justice system are not without merit; law enforcement has had a long history that includes racial biases and unfair treatment of minorities in this country. Race relation and discrimination are clearly in the forefront of modern law enforcement, particularly in the wake of high-profile cases, such as Ferguson, Statin Island, Tulsa, and other cities across the United States. However, the criminal justice system is not broken; law enforcement organizations can regain public trusts through effective leadership, transparency, and fostering diversity. Former FBI Director, James Comey was very transparent in his speech at Georgetown University. Comey raised many compelling points in his speech on law enforcement and race relations; two of the most salient issues are unconscious biases and relationship building, while cynicism and lack of data, although critical, has an indirect influence on racial disparities.