Discrimination Is A Fight For Equality

After this week's readings, it definitely helped me understand more about the concept of oppression and how it is connected with discrimination and prejudice. Through reading the chapter in "Is Everyone Really Equal?", it was presented in a way where it was very informative, describing current issues that individuals face in their everyday lives. There was a lot of information to take in, however, it made me realize, without question, how little I know about oppression and how it greatly affects an individual's life. It was also interesting to read about the women's suffrage portion in the chapter. That no matter how much women wanted to be granted the right to vote, only men had the power to vote and also having the power to give women

In the United States, companies of all shapes and sizes must adhere to nondiscrimination policies and practices that prohibits against any and all various types of conduct based on certain characteristics when it comes to the hire, fire, and relationship with their employees (Canas & Sondak, 2014). As a member of the workforce, we would hope and assume that we wouldn’t have to deal with discrimination anymore. Don’t get me wrong, our country has grown so much over the years when it comes to tackling discrimination in the workplace. It’s just unfortunate that it’s just not natural for organizations and companies to naturally be ethical and moral when it comes to their treatment of their potential applicants or current employees. There are still cases of discrimination currently in our society. It may not be as severe compared to before the modern civil rights era, but discrimination still does exist. With all due respect, an adequate amount of the laws are simple and are able to be understood easily but at the same time, there are other parts of discrimination and harassment laws that can be more difficult for one to understand and are more open to one’s interpretation (Canas & Sondak, 2014). One example of a recent discrimination case is of Calibuso et al V. Bank of America Corp. et al.

During the years of the Great Depression, Asian and Mexican immigrants had to take up the agricultural jobs in the United States. These immigrants made up the majority of the poor and faced problems with immigration, taxes, and the labor system, along with racial discrimination and a sense of inequality within society (Tejada-Flores, “The United”) Workers were surviving on 90 cents per hour with an addition of 10 cents per basket gathered for working in the fields and worked in poor environments and conditions. There were no toilets in the fields and no electricity or a plumbing system in the metal shacks that they were forced to pay two dollars or more per day for (“Fighting For Farm”). People then created and joined labor unions such as The United Farmworkers Union, which was established by the Mexican-American, Ceasar Chavez, to fight against injustice without violence for all farm workers. Chavez took all his important values, life lessons, and work experience to make a difference in the United States (Tejada-Flores, “Cesar Chavez”). Although he faces opposing opinions, he still managed to successfully lead the Delano grape strike and boycott and even help create the nation as we know it today.

Discrimination is often the underlying cause of inclusion. It means treating a person or group unfairly because of a particular characteristic, such as gender, disability, age, ethnic origin, skin colour, nationality, sexuality and/or religious belief.

In 1936, the strikes stretched southern California by all the celery fields and the citrus fields of Orange County, the aftermath led to violence and deportation. Mexican workers attempts failed because it led to no significant result. Chavez's project is not the first time Mexican-American farm workers had tried to unionize, in fact Mexican workers in the early 1900s were initially submissive, and the growers liked that. But when the workers realized that they were working in undesirable and substandard conditions and being set aside as a caste, they attempted to form unions to counter these abuses. In 1883 the Mexican cowboys on the Texas Panhandle had tried to organize. In 1903 Juan Gomez led Mexican and Japanese sugar beet workers on strike in Ventura, California. The dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times in 1910 was inspired by a strike of Mexican workers on a local railway. In 1922 Mexican field workers had sought to establish a union of grape-pickers in Fresno, California. These attempts were not successful, but they were steps in the right

Discrimination still exists in today’s society, throughout the work force, or any other source of social interaction. Our current ways of interaction and thinking affects our social behavior and emotions towards others. We tend to compare ourselves through the means of racial differentiation. We label ourselves as the black community, the white community and even the yellow community. Blacks would be accredited to African americans, the whites would the Europeans and the yellow class would fall anywhere between the Spanish and Asian community. The consequences of this ideology includes segregation and controversy between different ethnicities. One race would ultimately believe that they superior to the other which then leads to suppression such as slavery or yet again the Holocaust. We want

Discrimination is alive and well in America. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines discrimination as “the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people”. The article “FOBs vs. Twinkies” written by Grace Hsiang discusses intraracial discrimination amongst Asian Americans. It describes the divide between the Asian Americans called “FOBs” (fresh off the boat) that cling to their ethnic heritage, and those called “twinkies” that reject Asian culture and try to be seen as American. The article “Black Men in Public Spaces” by Brent Staples describes discrimination by giving a personal account of walking through public spaces at night and innocently scaring a woman. She silently stereotyped that he was a mugger, murderer, or rapist because he was black. This experience stayed with the author for his entire life. These two

Immigrants from Mexico are severely discriminated now for the same reasons the Chinese were in the 19th century. Because of the mass immigration of illegal Mexican immigrants willing to work for almost nothing American citizens are complaining that Mexicans are lowering the economy and taking jobs from the working class. Discrimination against Mexicans has become worse. Now Americans want to build a wall to prevent Mexican immigrant from coming into America. Mexicans are further being discriminated against in the workforce they are being taken advantage of because of they are illegally here so they don’t have any worker unions protecting their rights so they don’t get fair pay or insurance if they are hurt on the job they are just replaced and forgotten.

Systemic racism occurs when policies and practices exist is institutions that discriminates against and excludes one group or exclusively fosters another. The system is setup so that it doesn't need individuals to discriminate themselves because it is structured so that discrimination is omnipresent. Systemic racism is responsible for the inequity of schools between poor minority neighborhoods and rich white neighborhoods, because it puts restraints on their ability to learn and what they learn, which then hinders their ability to attain equal status.

Discrimination has been a problem since the beginning of time. Discrimination is mentioned in many pieces of classical literature such as Shakespeare’s Othello. In this classical play the main character Othello is never truly accepted into the Venetian society because he is a Moor from Northern Africa. His skin color caused people to view him differently and also presented problems when he tried to find a wife. After he eventually found and married Desdemona her father Brabantio still did not approve of him; he said “She, in spite of nature, Of years, of country, credit, everything, To fall in love with what she feared to look on! It is a judgment maimed and most imperfect That will confess perfection so could err Against all rules of nature” (Act I, Scene 3). Brabantio saw this love as unnatural because he believes Desdemona would never fall in love with a black man who she was afraid to look upon. Before Othello married Desdemona Brabantio saw him as an honorable leader and great man, but after their marriage he accuses him of black magic and urges their marriage to be annulled by the Duke. This discrimination led to Othello’s doubt and self-conscience attitude which, ultimately leads to his demise at the end of the play. Discrimination continues to exist today as it did 400 years ago in Shakespeare’s time. Today people are still discriminated against and persecuted because of their race or their religious views.

Our posts are pretty much alike. We did describe some different laws however. The Civil Rights Act and the Equal Employment Opportunity Act are two of the main and purposeful laws. The Civil Rights Act prohibits intentional discrimination like you said which plays an enormous role in our society. Especially with the United States of America having an African-American president, I think we have come a long way. I know some racism and discrimination still exists, but it is crazy to think how far one law has come and has truly made a difference. The EEOC goes hand and hand with the Civil Rights Act. This act is what allows all employers to be treated equally. Lets use the scenario of Hispanics in the workplace. Lots of Americans do not like others

Discrimination occurs to many different types of people but racial discrimination seems to occur more to these specific individuals which in America it appears to be that the groups most discriminated against are African Americans and Hispanics. America has grown into a place where certain events are associated with these groups. Many people simply assume that African Americans are associated with crime and that all hispanics are illegal. This is called prejudice. People who assume these things about an entire group of people are the root

In 1965 at Howard University, President Johnson gave a speech where he addressed the topic of Affirmative Action stating:

Imagine you going to the store and being told to leave because of the color of your skin. Racial discrimination in the United States still existss and should be addressed. In July 2011 the percentage of unemployed African Americans and Hispanics were double that of whites (huffingpost.com).

Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. Discrimination has been going on for generations among generations. Many years ago people of different races were divided from each other. Public places were segregated, colored people had to use specific water fountains, schools were segregated, and blacks had to sit at the back of the buses. If they were to disobey, then there would be consequences and repercussions. Equality was a figment of imagination, a dream the minority groups had. Throughout the years racism has decreased and many things pertaining to racism were made illegal, but that doesn’t mean racism disappeared. If people were to resume racist behaviors, that can lead the world back to the days of inequality.