Interracial Segregation In America

Owning a home is something many people yearn for. According to the racial wealth gap by Janelle Jones “Overall housing equity makes up about two-thirds of all wealth for a typical household”. Many blacks would like to own a home but either are discriminated against in the housing market or cannot afford it. According to the Chicago Tribune, in 2016 only 42.2 percent of blacks owned a home while 71.9 percent of whites owned a home. Less than half of black people own a home. This then leads to education, African Americans not being able to own a home and live in metropolitan areas leads to a low education rate. According to the HuffPost “Children that grow up in poor neighborhoods have a significantly reduced chance of graduating high school. This is a significant quote, I have seen from personal experience coming from a public school, in a metropolitan area that many minorities drop out. This is still an ongoing problem today in Milwaukee. A significant part of blacks going to public schools, with low education rates is because of racial segregation.

In the 1960’s, black and white individuals were not recognized as being equal. The two races were treated differently, and the African Americans did not enjoy the same freedoms as the whites. The African Americans never had a chance to speak their mind, voice their opinions, or enjoy the same luxuries that the white people attained. Through various actions/efforts like the lunch counter sit-ins, freedom rides, and bus boycotts, the black people confronted segregation face on and worked to achieve equality and freedom.

In Spite of the devastating history of segregation in the United States. A lot has changed in the past fifty years since segregation ended. The United States shifted from arresting African Americans for using “white only” facilities to integrated schools all over the country. Influential individuals such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr helped pave the way for African Americans to live as equals to along with their white counterparts in the United States of America.

I feel for the most part the characteristics in this united or consistent with my experience in the African American culture. Slavery did set us back some years, but I have to say it has made us stronger. Most of us had to face great obstacles to get in a good place, but no matter what we keep making it through the adversity. After slavery, we as a culture had to make it through the jim crow laws. This sparked the civil right movement that gave blacks a voice to speak out against the injustice that had been quietly dealt with for years. In most of these different processes blacks had to face a criminal justice system that never seemed to be on their side. Blacks had to literally practice before the went up to testify in court in the justice system because of the very rigid injustice presented in courts. Blacks did earn their right to vote in the justice system, and they did earn their freedom in the justice system, but the justice system was geared for whites and not blacks, but through actual quoting the actual law, blacks was able to fight for their freedom. The actual law did protect its people. but it is what people inject into laws the are discriminating. Later, came the muslim movement that made blacks realise that they control their own destiny. African Americans has even came up as for in the middle class, but the problem is that it is a big gap between the low class and the middle. Most Blacks feel they cannot trust the police, and I believe it is from the past.

Segregation, an word that has haunted countless AfricanAmericans for years upon years. Segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. It has cut AfricanAmericans short from many opportunities, leaving us dumb founded.

As an inhabitant of planet earth, I have watched the people grow and prosper and then fall back to old habits. Years ago, we were separated by race and even though we claim that time is over, it is not. Our country is a great example of segregation because we not only segregate by race, but by gender and sexual orientation as well. America was founded on preconceived expectations of gender and race leading to a segregation of consciousness that structures opinions around the injustices of stereotypes.

People are accepting each other, blacks and whites, and people are making mixed-race children. This change the American people are seeing is unlike any other change we have had. We have been able to overcome our differences and live in a place where a black man can sit in the front of the bus with a white man, and a hispanic person can marry a black person, and so many other beautiful combinations. The change in racial demographics doesn’t just color our world but it changes the way we think, see, and it gives us a reason to be who we are. Some people don’t want to accept the change in the world and the change may be frightening at first, but when you look at it from a different angle of tolerance, a different point of view, the change can be something extraordinary, and we learn to accept it, just like we’ve accepted the people around

Segregation in America grew worse and worse after the Civil War, but it was even worse in modern times. One example of this is stated in Source B,” America watched footage of brutish, white Southerners mercilessly harassing African Americans bent on getting an education.” This shows how merciless and uncaring segregationists were at the time. Moreover, it shows how violent segregation can be, and why it’s wrong. Furthermore, Source C stated,” Jim Crow laws led to the disenfranchisement of African-Americans voters.” However, the segregationists argued that it was right, purely for the belief that their skin was better. This further proves that segregation is bad, as it takes away the rights that everyone should have regardless of race. In all, segregation was a terrible, yet powerful influence over Americans.

For many centuries people have been separated into different groups. People characterize others into many categories. These include wealth, mutual interests, appearance, or even the color of one's skin. Just think of how many times a day someone says Latinos, Whites, Cubans, Asians, Blacks, or Native Americans. Society is grouping people together on one thing, and one thing only. The color of their skin and it is not right. Everyone may look different on the outside, but on the inside everyone ie the same. Humans.

Racial segregation has been embedded in southern society ever since the birth of the America. However, even though documents such as Brown vs. Board of Education and the fourteenth amendment has been instituted into the constitution, we are still facing racial segregation throughout America that is unconstitutional and unjust. The south of America, especially Alabama, are facing several claims of racial tension in their prison system and their way to solve the tension between the black and white population is through segregation. The prison system has faced a lot of backlash, as 65% of their inmates consist of African Americans and 35% of them consist of white Americans. From time to time there has been violent encounters between white and black Americans, which have led to many unfortunate deaths. In order to simmer down the tension, the prison system thought it would be necessary to isolate inmates by race. The decision of segregation in Alabama’s prison system takes us back into history, when African Americans’ faced separate but equal law (Plessey vs. Ferguson) that separated whites from blacks in public facilities. This action is total nonsense and Alabama’s governing systems needs to find methods in which can diversify black and white American’s together to unify with each other through actives and interactions.

Segregation in the United States, legal or social practice of separating people on the basis

The United States prides itself as a nation with a government that treats its citizens with equality regardless of race and ethnicity. Based on this country’s legal actions, is that an accurate description? The people of the United States are divided into different groups based on the color of their skin. The divisions created racism and eventually led to segregation. The segregation of African Americans and white people led to the passing of the Jim Crow laws. These laws strengthened Southern segregation. The passing of the Jim Crow laws influenced the way that people acted towards one another. Overturning the Jim Crow laws with the Voting Rights’ Act of 1965 could not reverse the effects of the segregation and racist actions. The lasting effects of the Jim Crow Laws and the Voting Rights’ Act of 1965 are prevalent in today’s society. They are visible in the treatment of and actions towards black citizens of the United States. Racial equality does not exist in the United States. It does not exist because race does not exist. Race is an illusion created by humans to categorize and separate one another. However, racism is real. Racism perpetuates the division of people and keeps the illusion of race strong. The perpetual divisions create a hierarchy that disallows for everyone to be viewed and treated equally.

“The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.” Although today we may not see it as often, segregation was a very big problem throughout our country in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. Over time it didn’t get better, it got worse. Around the year of 1877 the Jim Crow Laws were unfortunately put into place. These laws separated whites and blacks in many different ways such as transportation and even education. These laws were what clarified segregation. Jim Crow Laws defined times of racial segregation through isolation and unfair treatment.

The way how racialization has operated in the United States is interesting, though it is in a macabre way. When the US consolidated as a nation-state, there was a violent system, which was intentionally and explicitly exterminating and enslaving people on the basis of racial profiling. Two centuries after, “the basics” of the system remain the same, although covered by different discourses. The chapters dedicated to the 90’s decade, were specially terrifying, given the current political situation. However, the recent-past political context, seems to undermine even more racial justice. Since it gives an “impression” that outliers are “the norm”.

Today for many young Americans there is a complication with getting their voices heard because they're thought to be unequal with their opinions and decisions upon civil rights issues. At the point of segregation and/or discrimination for the individuality of one's race is the point at which a community should recognize the differences between right and wrong in this situation because we have evolved or we should evolve away from these stereotypical dissociations. Today we can continue the ban against these immoral directions that we have already attempted to outlaw. To be guilty is to say and do nothing because we must do something or we will return to a horrible era of injustice to all humans alike.