How Do African Americans Face Racial Inequality

According to the United States Department of Labor(2016), the unemployment rates among black americans was a staggering 8.6, compared to 4.1 with white americans as of October of 2016. This gap, although much smaller compared to thirty five years ago, shows no trend of changing. Unemployment rates among the minority citizens of america has been consistently about double that of white america for an extremely long amount of time, six decades to be exact, according to Pew Research Center (2013). This is not only an issue in the United States, in the UK nearly half of young black males looking for a job are unemployed. This shows that discrimination is not just a factor in today’s labor force in the United States, but throughout the world as

A school setting provides opportunities where issues of social justice, oppression, and discrimination can be addressed. According to Bemak and Chung (2009), students of color and economically disadvantaged students are likely to have low academic achievement, in comparison to their White middle class counterparts. These disparities in academic

Ever since the establishment of equal education in the United States, there has been a disparity in academic success between children of different races. The education of African American children has become a prime example of this. As discussed in the historical text, A Letter to My Nephew, which was written during the time of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s, African Americans were not given equal opportunities to succeed educationally and could do little to change their futures for the better. They had to work much harder than whites to receive even a portion of the recognition and success that whites achieved (Baldwin 1). Although many today believe America has overcome this problem, it still remains a pressing issue in many aspects of society, arguably the most important being education. The racial achievement gap, an important term to familiarize with when discussing this topic, refers to the disparity in educational performance between students of different races (National Education Association 1). As of now, although the education achievement gap has been narrowing, there still remains a large disparity between African Americans and their racial counterparts. According to a study by Roland G. Freyer and Steven D. Levitt, professors at Harvard University and W.E.B Du Bois Institute, respectively, African American students enter kindergarten already significantly behind children of other races, and their test scores continue to drop

Is this the equality the Americans promised in the Constitution? African Americans are less likely to even graduate from college than Caucasian Americans and black households on average earn $18,094 less per year than white households. The inequality is seen in the job area, income per household, and even in criminal bases. Polling by the Pew Research Center, on the other hand, shows that nearly nine in 10 blacks say discrimination still exists. One in three say they have experienced it within the past year; that number rises to one in two when it comes to the workplace or the voting booth.

About 3.5 times more blacks are in poverty than whites (DBQ 7). As a result, blacks do not have the same income as whites and it is harder for African Americans to find a jobs. Since the civil rights movement occurred, about 15% of the whites that lived in Latino or black neighborhoods have moved out and into a neighborhood that are mostly white (DBQ 8). This continues to support that whites and even blacks are still showing a great example of the Civil Rights term “separate but equal”.

in the United States aren’t as valued or important as white citizens. The Pew Research center

In the United States, African American faced prejudice for hundreds of years. Even now, African American are still facing inequality. However, though these cruelties persist, according to Martin Luther King Jr. and Elie Wiesel, the past should not be forgotten.

A 2014 study by the Young Invincible found an African-American college graduate has the same job visions as a white high-school dropout or a white person with a criminal record. Unemployment rates had caused African-Americans to depend on welfare as a living, according, to statistics blacks are more likely to be on welfare before any other race. A 2004 study by the American Economic Review found job seekers with resumes that had white sounding names received 50 percent more callbacks for interviews. Names such as Jamal or Lakisha or others that are perceived as black sounding names received fewer callbacks. African-Americans who have achieved higher-education degrees than other race, investment leading to the middle class still find themselves more likely to face long-term unemployment than others. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 made changes to a law passed in the 1960s that protected workers from intentional employment discrimination based on race, sex, religion and national

The last cause is cultural expectation toward race. People’s attitudes of African Americans tend to be biased due to the belief that African Americans are dangerous so they should be separated from other students as well as they are not as smart as people from Europe. Therefore, the article provides some possible solutions that would address this problem, many points should be taken in to consideration. First, we have to accept the fact of racial disparities instead of blaming. Second, we have to acknowledge our different prospective on race and racial disparities and what matters is how to find solution for this problem regardless of our different reactions to this issue. Finally, Developing a sophisticated response to intervention (RTI) to

Another premise in this review focuses on the significant divergences of opinions about the plight of the African American’s situation here in America. Some scholars are asking, how has this new pattern of inequality for the African American emerged? Many scholars point to the decline of middle level jobs (Harrison & Bluestone 1988), the redistribution of manufacturing jobs away from large cities like Chicago and Detroit, where many jobless blacks live (Sassen 1988), and the rise of earnings inequality among workers of all races (Danziger & Gottschalk 1993) as causes. One manifestation of these changes may be that gains in earnings have been offset by a growing racial disparity in unemployment between black and white men (Moss & Tilly 1991).

The most significant parts of the book were the first and third chapters. Within these chapters, they spoke about the everyday racism experienced by African-Americans. Reading the blatant disrespect and stereotyping displayed within these stories was shocking. I can not fathom the strength and patience it takes to constantly cope with passive aggressive comments about race. Yet, not all the real world experiences in the story had passive aggressive comments and an example of this is the story on page 15. In this story, there are two instances of mistreatment. The first injustice happens when the neighbor calls the police on the young African-American man who is using the phone in front of the house. This is a more obvious racist action because neighbor assumed the African American man was dangerous. The second instance is when the friend tells the man to take his phone calls in the back of the house rather than the front. This is more subtle racism because the young man should be able to make phone calls wherever he pleases. This account is one of the many stories that illustrates the prejudices African Americans face everyday. I have been well aware that race is still a major problem in this country and this book is evidence.

African Americans received unequal treatment in Mississippi of 1964. Some had to pick cotton rather than go to school even if they wanted. They got told, “They don’t need to be in school anyway, they need to be in the field.” The straw boss would even say that the kids where too big to be in school. When they rode to school on the bus, they were forced to sit in the back. They weren’t able to sit in the front of the bus like whites could. At school they weren’t allowed to drink out of the same water fountain as whites were. Women got treated badly, they were raped by older men that took advantaged of them. Although, their parents couldn’t say anything about the situation or they would even get killed over it. African Americans also didn’t receive

Since prejudice is so predominant it has cause a ripple in our country. A report that got some information about their perspectives of bigotry has found the country to in any case be profoundly isolated, with larger parts of black and white Americans holding almost inverse perspectives of the effect of skin pigmentation. Roughly 4 in 10 African Americans question that the nation will ever achieve the point where they are equivalents to whites, according the Pew Research Center. Almost 4 in 10 white Americans consider that has as of now happened. Greater parts of white individuals trust blacks are dealt with the same as them when applying for a home loan, in the work environment, and at the voting stall. Police treatment of blacks, the Black

A recent poll in 2015 by CNN said thirty-nine percent of Americans think race relations

Today many people believe that we have obtained racial equality. However there are multiple reasons and statistics that contradict those arguments . For decades African Americans has been deprived of basic rights, “If America had racial equality in education and jobs, African Americans would have two million more high school degrees…(Raines)”. There are many drastic racial gaps from education to owning property. Throughout America’s history blacks have been limited, when it comes to education, property, and other things. If people truly believe that after four hundred years of enslavement and limited rights, can be fixed within one generation they are wrong. The African American community has faced