Racial 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.

During a very significant time period of American History, many leaders, particularly Malcolm X, rose to prominence during the Civil Rights era. The mid 1900’s was a time of racial segregation, and discrimination leading to a worldwide issue between the black and white races. “By any means necessary”, a famous quote breeds from this time of racial discrimination which brought together thousands of people to get what they as humans deserved. 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states still inhabited a harshly unequal world of segregation, and forms of oppression. Jim Crow laws were formed during the 1880’s forming a system of segregation and discrimination that barred black Americans from a status equal to that of white Americans. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution granted blacks freedom, citizenship, and suffrage. Malcolm X during his lifetime had influenced many African Americans to step up for their rights against the injustices by the American government. While he has been criticized for his hard stances that resemble extremism, on the other hand he has been praised him for his effort in raising the status for African Americans. Malcolm X was a brave advocate for African Americans as he fought for what him and every other black person in the world deserved, freedom. Both his participation in the civil rights movement, and his promotion of segregation between blacks and whites had a great impact on the worldwide

Racial bias is still a very active issue in society today. This paper explores the understanding of racial bias in business hiring. This is critical because racial bias continually uniforms businesses in hiring decisions. The prevalence of racial bias in business hiring, potential interventions, and explanations of why this occurs will be explored. How prevalent is racial bias in business hiring today and how can it be mediated?

Racial bias is a attitude or stereotype that influence a racial attitude when hiring someone for a job. Modern racism and racial bias in he workplace would relate to discrimination in the hiring process. I’m interested in this topic because this is a very global topic and, this is very unfair treatment and I feel that if you have the credentials no matter what race you are you should be able to get the job that you desire.

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.

As a white middle class girl growing up in a nice area in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, I thought that racial discrimination was a thing of the past. Yes, I knew my ex-Mennonite grandmother didn’t want me to marry an African American, but I laughed that off, because other than that, racism, discrimination, and prejudice were not things I saw in everyday life. I did not think to notice how many of my acquaintances were all white people. That would have made a difference in my opinion about discrimination. However, over the past few years, I paid more attention to the news stories. I analyzed how I describe people with a slightly different color skin. In doing so, I realized that these news stories and my words are so normal to me that I am not able to recognize them for what they truly are. With more discrimination brought to the light, artists of all forms are speaking out about their experiences. Aaradhna’s song “Brown Girl” deals directly with the issues of discrimination that she dealt with growing up. In her heartfelt song, Aaradhna puts on display her hope for a world where people look past the color of skin and instead see the person in front of them.

“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background” – Citizen

According to a poll done by news outlets 87% of black Americans say they face a lot of discrimination in the United States, but only 49% of white Americans agreed. Black Americans do face a lot of discrimination in the United States, but they are usually considered less compared to white Americans. The call to respond together peacefully to all forms of violence comes from leaders, such as Reverend Martin Luther King. As a young citizen, I want to promote peace by working together to stand up against bullying and people being targeted for their race, fixing problems caused because somebody didn’t like someone else’s race, and working together as a community to teach racist individuals why racism should be avoided and to see more than a one-sided story.

Throughout time there has always been many, but many confections within the people but not only the people but within the world itself. One of the biggest issue that the world has been facing within itself is discrimination within the people. Much has change but many things have stayed the same, no matter how powerful the word of someone can be, humans are always going to be humans. People may stand up for what they believe in, but is that changing anything to make the country or even the world a better place for the future children to grow up and for them to not to repeat history but make their own history as a proved one of equality within the people.

The anxious student timidly walks into her school one day. Keeping her head down, she quickly maneuvers around students and tries to avoid drawing attention. The girl and her family are followers of Islam, which makes them Muslim. It was a couple days after September 11th, 2001, the previous terrorist attack still had people shook up. During those couple of days, the girl had drawn a lot of unwanted attention towards herself, just because of what race she is.

In recent years, or should we say that since slavery took place, the United States has been infused with a great quantity of inequality, especially in the direction of minority groups. There have been numerous racial discrimination events that have been introduced in recent years. For instance, a great deal of police shootings, especially in opposition to minority groups; specifically African-Americans. Moreover, according to Mapping Police Violence, “Unarmed black people were killed by police at five times the rate of unarmed whites in 2015.” Additionally, not only has Trump, before presidency, made remarks towards minority groups, but has also given the immunity to his followers to aggravate and become racist against minorities. Therefore, it is acceptable to say that multiple people around the world have argued that our current president has tried dividing the country between his own race, and those of minority groups, rather than coming together as a whole. As a result, there have been multiple individuals with the sufficient amount of power that have started protesting this injustice in the United States.

I will start by saying that, I am a true believer of equality for all human beings regardless of race and cultural backgrounds. I strongly believe that the world would be a better place if we could all put our differences aside and build a society that is upheld with love, respect, peace, and unity. However, because of the times that we are currently living in, it is almost impossible for us as humans to achieve a unified society. With that being said, I am siding with separation. Let me explain why!

One of the most controversial concepts is race. In this paper the term race will be used to “...refer to a category of people who are defined as similar because of a number of physical appearance” (Tischler, 2014, P.229). Genetics are one way to define a race by bringing attention to differences in gene frequencies among certain groups. The specific trait being looked at determines how many races can be defined by this method. Variations in physical appearance have shown nothing to do with the process of the biological classification of humans, however mental and physiological similarities have shown to be much more helpful in this process. There are also legal definitions of race, which are centered around determining who is not white. Segregation laws did this when certain members of a group were to be given different treatments and separated. These legal definitions of race gave specific guidelines to follow when trying to determine if someone is not white. The social definition of race does not use physical features or a person's heritage to determine their race, but rather their actions. If a person acts, dresses, speaks as if they are part of a certain race, who is to say they are not part of that race?

How would you feel if you were the last one to start in the race we call life? Unfortunately, this has been the case for many Americans here today. Throughout most of our nation's history, all, even whites, faced discrimination. This includes Jim Crow laws, Chinese Exclusion acts and enmity for colored people in general. Even after all of this opposition and disadvantages, many people have been able to pave a way of life in this country. With pressure comes change and it all erupted in the mid 20th century. During the 1950s and 1960s, many minorities started to aggressively pursue equal rights with the most famous figures leading the charge: martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, etc. This all continued until the revolutionary civil rights act of 1964, where president Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill stating that outlaws all discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Miraculously, this bill immediately affected the lives of the millions of the once victims of this poisonous culture of racism. All people of color started to gain a huge advantage in the once white dominated spheres of society. However, even if this bill landmarked a huge turning point in history for minorities, the effects of years of discrimination still linger. It has only been half a century since this revolutionary bill has been signed and minorities still have a stagnation in the race of life. Many people are in poverty, and some people are still being discriminated

Statistics show the number of people shot to death by the U.S. police in 2017, distinguished by race. By November 2, 2017, the U.S. police shot 159 Hispanics.Almost all victims of police shootings were male. In 2016, 923 out of 963 fatalities were men. The racial tensions happening right now could be bringing this nation together or be ripping this nation apart.Affecting police around the world by conflicts.Government save all the people and relocate their families.But there is still disagreements.Most people who had racial tensions were people of color .Due to racial tension and the trends happening some people don't agree with them making the trends but the people who are being discriminated against together and helping alot of people.It is also tearing them apart because Right now alot of races are having trouble with the police because of all the incidents that have happened and that too can be a leading factor in how it could bring the nation apart.