Johnny Underprivileged

Kent J. Fetzer of Salt Lake City, Utah, attests in the Salt Lake Tribune that although he is concerned with his children’s protection from gangs and peer pressures, he is as much worried for them against the “tyranny of bureaucracy” (“School Uniforms Stifle Freedom 2”).

Parents are not happy with Clifton’s school board, for making their elementary kids wear uniforms. They say “it is unnecessary and they want the district to update the existing dress code.” In fact, some parents want to sue if the Clifton school district says yes to uniforms (Murtha). To add, about half of black students and about one in every four Hispanic students are forced to wear uniforms, while about one in every twenty white students have to wear uniforms, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found. The statistics show 50% black students, 26% Hispanic students, and only 6% white students have to wear uniforms in the metro Atlanta area (French). Racial disparities are drawing federal attention, plus the punishment for minor uniform violations are getting out of hand. Pulling children out of class is unfair to the students. In only the first couple weeks of the 2003- 2004 school year hundreds of students were suspended for just having an un-tucked shirt (Wilson). “The racially disproportionate application of uniform requirements unfairly penalizes minority students, and may violate the federal Civil Rights Act” said Daniel Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the University of

Women and minorities have several things in common. They have endured struggles, trials, tribulations, and attacks on several levels. Women and minorities have overcome several things. They have evolved from being overlooked to being relevant in corporate America, overseeing businesses, and obtaining executive level positions. Women and minorities have a special purpose and assignment for the world that can only be fulfilled by them.

You have many people to go to when you face a problem. you have a general capital. Managers and law authorities are mostly the same as your race. That gives you a goal, a role model and an easy way to achieve your dreams. When you are a minority, on the other hand, everything is a fight. Life is hard because mostly you are alone. If you want to go beyond, you have to leave your family, your culture and go in to a position you might not be welcomed. You struggle in your life because you have a little help. That’s whites privilege. That’s what most whites have but minorities don’t. other than that, minorities have to face with myths that is in every one’s mind. For example, Mexican Immigrants are criminals, take jobs and are leeching while most work hard in a very low wage to change their entire family life. Other myths considering all Muslims as a terrorist and all native Americans as alcoholic are common,

Just dive in. You can swim. It will clear all the burden you have endured throughout your life. It will be a fresh start. Trust yourself. The novel Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng, examines how failure stems from the fear to express ourselves, which is caused by sexism and racism, thus placing a burden on victims of this discrimination. Unfortunately, racism and sexism are constant forms of discrimination that have been holding individuals back from reaching their full potential for centuries. Discrimination is due to the tragic reality that people are fearful of others who are different from them. They fear that this different race or gender may upstage them in the competition of life. The Lee family unfortunately has to bear the burden of discrimination in their everyday life due to racism and sexism. This burden carries the Lee family down like an anchor billowing to the bottom of the sea in hopes of finding peace once it hits the sea floor.

Uniforms are traditionally favored in private schools, but they are being introduced into more and more United States public schools everyday. During the 2013-2014 school year, one in five public schools in the United States required students to wear uniforms to school everyday. This went up from one in eight schools requiring them in the 2003-2004 school year. ("Background of the Issue," n.d., para. 1). The percentage of schools that require them has increased from thirteen percent during the 2003-2004 school year, to nineteen percent in the 2011-2012 school year ("Background of the Issue," n.d., para. 18). The process of having to discipline a student because they violated the dress code is a process that nobody, student, teacher, or parent, likes to go through. Multiple students cannot drive; so when they disregard the school 's dress code, their parents have to pause whatever

“I think there is a fear that if we present an idea that, ‘Hey, maybe [Black women] have it a little bit harder in this country’ — because we do; Black women and trans women do — if we’re having it a little bit harder, it doesn’t invalidate your experience. I really am begging you to not take it personally.” – Jessica Williams

Discrimination and prejudice have both been a major problem in our society since the idea of gender and race contacted our brains. Everyone hopes that humankind will change and treat everyone equally and fairly, but this still has yet to happen. Mankind is still treating people as minorities without a second thought. Women are still stereotyped as being too feminine for a “man’s job”, such as construction or military forces. As well as, men being considered to manly to be able to perform jobs such as a nurse or even a single parent. Even today, the majority of the world 's population has the subtle thought of superiority in the back of their minds, granted it is unintentional in most cases. Although, racism and sexism has become less of a national issue, the two topics share multiple similarities considering discrimination is everywhere, and that it is impossible to avoid.

In today 's world discrimination is a racial inequality when it come to different races in the United states. Discrimination has been around for years and have created a social inequality , economic crises and have lowered individuals into a group known as the “ racial minorities “.Racial minorities can be classified as older people , women , immigrants and young men and women. Women from the early 1600’s to today 's women have been discriminated against for years. Women have never had the same respect as men so, they had to earn respect by stepping up for their rights. Women have made it clear in modern society, that we have the ability to perform equal skills and become success in virtually every endeavor engaged in by men including, employment, athletes, academics and politics.Yet we have discrimination on the basis of racial inequality which has a long history in United States

To begin with, race is a massive barrier that stands in the way of many racialized women’s advancement in the labour market. The article

Parents and students are not only upset that their freedom of expression is allegedly being violated, but they believe that with this intrusion, the students can no longer be unique within their school. Along with these faults, they additionally argue that the uniforms have no direct effect on learning and violence. Yes, some studies show no effect of the dress code, but the majority of studies show a significant difference in grades and disciplinary problems with these both improving after the implication of a dress code. For example, in 1996 after President Clinton’s State of the Union Address where he told schools “to teach character education, to teach good

Students are often in a position where they are forced to wear whatever they have. In some instances, students cannot afford the uniform attire. In other instances their bodies will make wearing the uniform uncomfortable. There are more negative effects of being forced to wear a uniform. An example is being dressed in clothes that are disliked adds to the lack of comfort a student feels during the school day. In this regard, school officials should reconsider their uniform policies because of its effect on student self-esteem. Furthermore, uniforms extremely affect young adults who are trying to find out their personal identity. School officials who mandate students to conform are forcing them to show little to no individuality. As a result of uniform policies, student self-expression is stifled and stagnated, their natural creative growth is discouraged, and students’ families are forced to incur additional expense, and inadvertently cause student defiance.

I have now met some of the most powerful woman in the world that put these fears to shame. I had the chance to meet a female major general. This was a life changing moment for me this semester. This woman challenged all the cultural biases of woman being weak. This woman is who I look up to when I feel weak myself because of my gender. There are still times where I face such biases as a woman. When I feel misjudged because of this, I remember all of her accomplishments, and let them drive me. This reminds me of when we talked about minority groups in class and how many of them are judged because of factors they cannot control, like their skin color and their race. I cannot control the fact that I am a woman, and have been looked down upon because of so. This is no comparison to what such oppressed minority groups face, but my experiences through training gave me a different perspective while reading these class articles.

To be treated as lesser or unworthy is a terrible thing. What happened to ‘all men are created equal’? I guess that only applies if you are a straight, white man. A minority is a part of a population differing from others in some characteristics and are often subjected to different treatment. That said, minorities were mistreated and shoved to the back of history. In Aria by Richard Rodriguez the Rodriguez family feel what it means to be a minority in their everyday life. They’re held at arm's length by the people around them, and struggle to assimilate. In Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt it's not race that sets these women behind. It is simply the fact that they are women. In both novels society is presenting more challenges to a certain group, but that does not stop them. Even today minorities are still at a disadvantage. That does not stop people from pursuing their goals and dreams. As a student perseverance is needed because you cannot give up easily or you just will not make it.

Growing up in America it seem that success was described in a way that was very obtainable for everyone to reach as long as you worked hard and got an education. Now assessing life and some of the experiences I have had, I don’t remember anyone explaining that white privilege had that exception. With a social worker perspective it helps me understand that different cultural group are associated with being vulnerable because of cultural norms in diverse ethnicities of individuals. Identifying as an African American woman has many life risk factors associated with those identities. One example that I have had personal experience with was racism. While striving to become a better person and working to obtain my bachelors degree in Social Work, I took notice to how the residents of the rural environment were uncomfortable with my identity’s being African American and woman. I often got racially profiled by police and even was called hurtful names by residents due to the color of my skin and stereotypes. In further support of my experiences Draut (2017) acknowledges that hierarchies continue to marginalize black people, women and immigrants. As a Social Worker it is a part of our duty to Ethics to encourage dialogue and provide education on stereotypical biases to begin to see change in the way that diverse groups are viewed and treated.