Minority Discrimination

I was watching the news, when the footage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster came on. The news reporters were showing a black man walking in flooded waters near a market with a bag full of food and labeled him a “thief”. Social media in the United States has portrayed people of different racial backgrounds differently and unequally in recent years. In the essays “Theories and Constructs of Race” and “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?” the authors discuss in both essays about issues with racial equality in our world today. Authors Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe discuss in the first essay racial schemes are created through prejudices and the telling and retelling of stories. While, authors Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado discuss in their essay about the issue of “colorblindness” in social media. Holtzman is a professor of communications and journalism at Webster University, while Sharpe is a professor at Webster as well. Similarly, Harris and Carbado are professors at UCLA’s School of Law and have addressed widely on race, gender, civil rights and constitutional issues. Both essays do a good job at explaining their ideas and supporting them with evidence of racial discrimination in our world today. The authors from both essays organize their ideas and summarize them, which helps understand the main idea of racism, discrimination and racial inequalities in today’s society.

Through Sociology we learned that a minority group is a group whose member share a distinct physical and cultural characteristics. Minority groups are often the targets of prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice is defined as an irrational attitude towards certain people based solely on their membership in a particular group.Discrimination is the behavior, epically unequal treatment of people because they are members of a particular group. Everyone in this group belong to a minority in the united states. Each one of our minority groups has experienced prejudice and discrimination. All minorities have different struggles, but we all have the same

The United States of America is an ethnically and racially diverse country. In 2016, The United States Census Bureau reported an estimate of 323,127,513 people making up for the United States population ("Population estimates, July 1, 2016, (V2016)"). Though the United States is composed of a diverse population, discrimination widely exists. Discrimination is defined as treating someone unfavorably because he or she is of a certain race or his or her personal characteristics reflect a particular race ("Race/Color Discrimination"). Discrimination has existed in American Culture since slavery began and still exists in the health care system today, specifically within minority groups: African Americans/Blacks and Hispanics. Discrimination

Discrimination is nothing new to our society or is it something that should be taken lightly and for many decades our Nation has endured many conflicts that have tested the will of Americans over the decades and it is evident that as we have become more diverse so too has our workforce. Although, we are in the twenty first century the goal is to understand why prejudice and discrimination is still so prevalent and how we can do better while trying to bring together our different backgrounds, skills, and experiences still has proven to be an issue that minorities are constantly fighting as they struggle to find there place in society. Through an array of well-educated researchers showing how diversity is nothing new to our society, but if we are to continue to grow and move forward we must be able to understand that with diversification we can foster a strong and inclusive economy that is built to last and nurture a nation that will continue to lead the world as standard setter.

In the law of the United States, diversity jurisdiction is allowed when the amount in controversy exceeds statutory amount and when the parties involved are “diverse” in citizenship, meaning they are from different states or one is a citizen of a foreign country (“Diversity of Citizenship”, 2010). In Article 3, section 2, the U.S. Constitutions grants congress the power to permit U.S. district courts in the federal judiciary to hear diversity cases. This was created because it was a big concern that if a party filed a case in its home state against another party from another state, the court might be biased toward the party from its own state. For this law to apply, there must be complete diversity, meaning none of the plaintiffs can be from

I am writing to you today to discuss the issue of minority discrimination in the workplace. Many minority groups in this country struggle to find stable jobs due to the fact that it is difficult to find sustainable employment. One of the main struggles they face in achieving successful careers is harassment within the workplace, not only demeaning employees, but stunting them from achieving full growth in their jobs. According to a survey by Business in the Community, approximately 30% of minority workers have experienced or witnessed harassment in the workplace based off of their race during the past year. As a country that prides itself on being a melting pot for all cultures and races, it is unacceptable that so many individuals are

The perpetuation of discrimination is felt by minorities nationwide. Compared to Whites, racial/ethnic minorities report higher rates of perceived discrimination in their

Individually I will take it upon myself to start a conversation with my peers and family members about the topic. I want to be able to express my thoughts and how others do the same. Giving everyone a fair chance at stating his or her views with one another. Locally their needs to be an organization committed to bring awareness and education to others that don’t understand social construction of race and ethnicity. Having different individuals organized an event to educate the community about their race and ethnicity. Nationally we need to accept that United States did wrong by discriminating against minority groups when they arrived. Being honest to their mistakes and making changes to help the minority groups they harmed. As a nation we

Do Americans feel like there is still racial discrimination in today's everyday life? Racial discrimination is treating someone differently because of the color of his or her skin. Racial discrimination has been around for a long time. There are laws that are supposed to protect non whites from being racially discriminated against but these laws are not applied to everyone equally. There are a lot of different types of discrimination such as gender and age but the main type is racial. Racial discrimination still exist in America based on discrimination at work, police brutality, and arrest rates.

There has been a lot of discrimination against many minority for centuries. People judging us on our skin color, our culture, and even how we look. This creates violates and haterius between us. We can’t let this get to us or make us feel bad about self. This should give us the courage to come together and come up with a way to solve this problem without no violates. When we come together no one can stop us. All of you young individuals have to come together and each other because you are our future. Your action can change how people look at us in the future. According to Booker. T Washington,”No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the highest success.

Minority groups in society have faced prejudice and discrimination throughout history and they continue to face it today. Religion and government have immense power to dictate what is seen as “correct behavior” in society. Furthermore, it is when minority groups infringe on these beliefs, that they can face this extreme prejudice and discrimination. Minority groups who have faced these adversities include First Nations and LGBTQ+ groups. Two stories that show the adversities that these groups face are A Word From the Nearly Distant Past by David Levithan and Totem by Thomas King.

I don't agree either on that policy of affirmative action where people who've been oppressed or have been discriminated based on their race get special treatment. I'm Hispanic and I would like to have a fair chance of winning something as any other person no matter what race they are. I also don't know what to feel when I have to answer these questions on forms because if it's for the government to keep a record of the different kind of people in the country, I don't have a problem. It would be a different story if they are using this information to segregate people of color or anything that would oppress someone.

The diversity discrimination has been a controversial topic for centuries which had established essential laws like affirmative action and equal opportunity programs hoping for fairness environment in the labor market. The integrity and awareness are necessary to attend in the organization personnel selection. Somehow, when the selection decision is participated by personal social identity or connecting type like age, sex and race to particular job thus the recruitment is attempting to create stereotype recognition in workplace. In this case, the stereotype is triggering classification between laborers and harmony with prejudice. Proponents this approach are appealing to be in environment that has favoritism and favorability, without considering the consequences that would happen for the employee's performance and behavior.

In America special arrangement of conditions prompted the subjugation of individuals who seem to look similar. The idea of race gives reason as to why people are denied rights and opportunities, especially since the economy was dependent on slavery. Racial injustices have been considered natural and justified. There's a lot of overlap between groups. There isn't a single gene, trait, or characteristic that distinguishes all the members of one "race" from all the members of another. Again, this is because categories are socially constructed, so there are inconsistencies in the way different groups are defined. If you change criteria, people fall into different groups. The idea that race isn't biological goes against one of our most fundamental assumptions: that there are meaningful, natural divisions between groups of people. Certainly people look different, but as it turns out, appearances can be deceiving.

Discrimination comes in many forms. Discrimination and diversity are closely linked considering the reasons behind discrimination are what makes up the definition of diversity. Not only is discrimination made against gender, race, and religion, but it is also made of age, disabilities, appearance and in a lot of cases, women who are pregnant too. This is very much a reality for many employers. There are laws protecting acts of discrimination. This topic is so sensitive, that many employers implement diversity and discrimination into their mission statements. Many companies make it their practice to host training sessions to prevent discrimination from happening, then there are many companies who can’t afford such training for their