Discrimination Against Black Americans

We have issues: more specifically , the United States has issues, continuous and all-encompassing issues of racial inequality.The United States is experiencing a outburst of racism, as can be seen from the 2014 killings of two unarmed African-American men, to the brutality of white supremacy in Charleston and the string of arsons in black churches across the South. Of course, it’s nothing new for a nation with a long history of extreme racist violence—the most recent lynching-related death occurred in 1981, hardly a lifetime ago, when Michael Donald was hanged by two members of the Ku Klux Klan.The United States, however, continues to avoid its history on race, refusing to confront its past in a “post-racial,” “colorblind” society, and that policy of systemic ignorance is particularly strong when mention of racial equality is brought up. Although the concept of equality has never truly existed in this world, as can be traced back to the very beginnings of recorded history we see the nobles ruling the commoners, conquerors reigning over the conquered, the will of man dominating women; the United States needs to acknowledge the fact that racial inequality still exists within our country and has in no way progressed towards betterment.

Particularly African American women who wanted to help in the war faced discrimination in race and gender. The disadvantage of both combined at the time with judgement toward a women’s capacity and the racial prejudice against African American women. Due to the fact that the numbers of men drafted in the war left a large portion of jobs open to first white women and the leftover opportunity left for the other race. African American women took the chance even if the judgement and racial discrimination would come with the job. The same options that were available to white women were mostly available to African American women. Black women took a job as a pilot, army official, or one’s with construction of war items. The issue with the assistance

Racial subordination of African Americans was a major national problem during the first half of the 20th century. In particular, during the 1940s, the South was the center of an intense racial struggle. The fight for equality by African Americans was still rife during the time (Berg 5). Published in 1947, Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal” illustrates this struggle as the author writes about a narration of a young black man who struggled with the aim of getting ahead in a society that was for the most part dominated by the white. Specifically, the author uses the protagonist’s characterization and setting to create insight into the racial tension of the Deep South during segregation. The story is set in the Deep South, during the 1940s, to help illustrate how racial discrimination was a systematic problem for African Americans.

Even though slavery happened almost 400 years ago, the disparities between African-Americans and their Caucasian counterparts is still present in today’s time. According to one source, African-American children are more likely to be in poverty than Caucasian children. These unsettling facts do not stop with just childhood, the unemployment rate for African-Americans is twice as high as it is for Caucasians (Ethnic and Racial, n.d.). When reading these statistics, some people might think that education is the answer that can fix all problems. They might even say that everyone essentially has the same chance to achieve greatness and become successful. However, even high-performing African-American students can be subject to unfair treatment.

When the Africans arrived in the Americas, the majority of them worked on plantations. Men, women, and even children worked. Women mostly worked as servants, nurses, dressmakers, and cookers. Whereas men worked as metalworkers, watch smiths, and etc. Africans who worked on plantations can only leave the field at a certain time, depending on the season of the crop. Africans created environment and wealth for their owner and their families. They also faced brutal oppression and they had no freedom whatsoever. Women were often abused and raped by their owner, which resulted in a mixed-race population. Some of the mixed race were free to a certain extent, whereas other had to buy their freedom.

1. The Jacksonians were not as they viewed themselves to be considering the unfair treatment of Native Americans and African Americans which can be exhibited by the Indian Removal act,Trail of tears and the advancement of slavery.

Over the course of American history, it is no question that other races have been disadvantaged because of their heritage and minority status. Slavery and discrimination have led to severe drawbacks for African American society, to give an example, which is unfair and unfortunate to those that have worked so hard and lose just because of their race. Luckily though, racism is coming to a much tighter close as time goes on, and people of color are much less discriminated than they once were. Privilege exists within every American due to the great freedom the country offers. Cultures are not structured to hate or isolate another culture; things like this happen because the people within those cultures have different viewpoints, which may cause

Watson and Austerberry, (1968) argued that Sex and racial discrimination, were embedded in the housing system which discriminated mainly against female-led and racial minority households. Such that, racial minorities have to rely on their own support systems. Including organisations Black Women Housing Group (1983 cited in ),

Throughout history, people of minority ethnicities have been discriminated against. Furthermore, this is largely caused by high ranking administrators operating in the prison system and our economy, which favors non-Hispanic, non-Arabic Caucasian people more than other races or ethnicities.

In our history and lives, humans tend to judge others. If they think they are not like themselves, they are weird and judge them of what they are. This problem is affecting our society today and was a bigger problem in our history. Our society’s achilles’ heel is judging others and not accepting who they are.

Discrimination has been a problem for many years, from the slaving of African Americans dating back to 1619, to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) individuals being shot in the streets a few weeks ago. However one specific group of people, transgendered people have been targeted for decades, yet they haven’t had the mass media coverage as other discrimination issues have. Focusing on their physical abuse, and psychological impact and the substance abuse from the discrimination they face; I hope to highlight these issues and show that they need help fighting this discrimination as well, and this isn’t just an individual problem but the bigger society’s issue.

The video created pain and confusion to see the way many people segregate or discriminate African Americans. It is hard to conceive in many people’s mind a mistreatment or deliberate actions that cause harm to a black person, simply because their skin color. There are many people who strongly oppose such behavior, and do not agree with the basis of discrimination. Also, immigrants can relate somehow to discrimination, and the many way this could affect them. It is terrible how a person can resent someone just for their color or their skin. This is a world with many different points of view, religious believes, political agendas or circumstances that can set people apart, but to take a physical aggression or retaliate because racial hate is

Through the course of our lifespan we have been taught about the issues of racism in the United States, however, most of the issues are usually associated with the south and the discrimination that African Americans faced. In reality, discrimination occurred nationwide and it followed every person of color during the late 19th and 20th century. Even if laws were implemented that stated that those who are citizens shall have their rights protected that was not the case for people of color. As we will see, blacks were not the only ones that were targeted. With the increase of mass migration into the United States minority groups such as Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and other minority groups were targeted. Racism in the United States lead to a creation of division among the color and the white and laws were created to support this separation.

Businesses nationwide are constantly breaking the law. They 're not giving blacks equal consideration to other candidates that are other than black by discriminating against them. It is against the law to racially discriminate against your choice of employees as put in place by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And here we are fifty years later and it is still happening today. To be black and middle class is not the same as to being say white and middle class and not for obvious reasons. The white has a major advantage and doesn 't have to do anything to earn it. The unemployment rate of blacks with a college education is 5 percent higher than that of whites and one of the main issues creating that statistic is racial discrimination. Employers

Finding myself in a place I wasn’t supposed to be became the catalyst for realizing the danger I was in from simply being a young black male.