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.

The government's first action to battle racial discrimination was the enforcement act of 1870, this act banned racial discrimination in voter registration. It also established consequences for those who interfered with one's right to vote. The government's second attempt to end discrimination was the enforcement act of 1871 which allowed federal oversight at elections if any citizen felt it was necessary. This act came with harsher punishments. The third and final attempt to end discrimination was the Ku Klux Klan act. This made any state official accountable in federal courts for stripping anybody of their civil right or protection of the law.  The KKK act also made several of their ploys federal offenses. This resulted on several hundred

The study of whiteness as a problem has been an African-American tradition going back to Frederick Douglass (Roediger, 2001). W.E.B. Dubois (1935) first used the term “whiteness” as an academic term, noting it had substantive material value in terms of public deference, which he labeled a type of psychological wage. Giroux (1997) points to the work of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, often found in Black magazines throughout the 1960-1980’s, continuing to explore the concept of “whiteness” in the public forum. The CWS approach to understanding racism, not as the fault of the oppressed, but instead directing the focus toward the racially dominant, was continued by non-white scholars including Toni Morrison and bell hooks in the early 1990’s (Howard, 2004).

Claudia Rankine’s contemporary piece, Citizen: An American Lyric exposes America’s biggest and darkest secret, racism, to its severity. While she highlights a vast number of stories that illustrate the hate crimes that have occurred in the United States during the 21st century, the James Craig Anderson case is prevalent because his heartbreaking story is known by few individuals throughout the country. In 2011, James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old man of Mississippi was nearly beaten to death by a group of white male teenagers due to the abundance of melanin in his skin. As if this was not enough, he was then purposely run over by a pickup truck as if he was just a random object in the road rather than an actual human being. These white young men stole the life away from Anderson, a devoted husband, and father similar to any other citizen of America simply because of him being black. While these Ku Klux Klan- reminiscent acts were thought to be “normal” in the 18th and 19th centuries, the 21st century is claimed to be the era of racial growth towards equality. Being that Anderson’s unjustifiable story was not nationally publicized further explains how the world seems immune to the racial injustice that is apparent today due to the cyclical nature of the occurrences. James Craig Anderson exemplifies how the world has yet to revolutionize, evidencing how we are still cemented in a racially insensitive epidemic. In other words, America is still racially insensitive to those who are seen as an inferior race, African Americans. `

For several years throughout U.S. history, there held a strong belief that African Americans were inferior to white Americans. After the Civil War (1861-1865), millions of former enslaved African Americans sought that they would now be able to be a part of the greater community as full and equal citizens. However, although some white Americans welcomed them, most white Americans did not. Instead, these white Americans targeted and discriminated against African Americans simply because of their race and cultural background. In particular, one way African Americans were discriminated against by white Americans included the segregation of public and private schools in the United States. Before the ruling of the legendary court case, Brown

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?

Yes, this scenario is a reportable injury. It is a reportable injury because Karen Kite was outside of her jobsite when she slipped and fell.

Almost every person of color has been racially discriminated against. Most of us have had it happened to us, some of us never really realized it was happening. Some of us don’t even know what it means to be racially discriminated is. So for my senior exit paper, I will be telling what racial discrimination is, how much it happens, why it happens, who it happens to and so much more. In this paper, you will be learning the basic background of racial discrimination and when and how it started.

We are all members of the human race and discrimination is an injustice; we must do something about it. For example, we can help who ever needs our help no matter what they look like. Starving people in our own country need food and medicine to live and we can give that to them even though they might look different than us, and even though they might have different skin than us. Color or race shouldn't stop us from saving someone's lives and caring for the sick and poor. Another example of discrimination in our world, is how some people don't get the same things as someone else because they look different. Even though someone looks different, it doesn't mean that they are different in a bad way and they shouldn't be put in the back of the kitchen

The political and economic consequences of racial discrimination have most certainly had an imbalanced benefit for white communities. However, these benefits are accepted as the standard for which these communities should be and have been in a sense of status quo. This refusal to accept the societal discrimination had often been referred to as color-blindness. Color-blindness can be defined as the refusal to acknowledge the struggle of non-white’s by using the success of a few no-white individuals as an example of a fading social racism. A example of this which is often used, is the election of President Barack Obama (López, 2004). Through the national election of a categorized “black” president, many have felt that this is an example of a race-free society. This community who believe this are often uneducated to contemporary societal structure of our country, or have personal agenda’s in which they feel the need to mask with bold statements.

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 an individual living in a world of different races, cultures, beliefs, etc., I have recognized that there will always be that group that tries to assert their dominance over other groups. This is called racism. Racism has existed throughout the world for centuries, perhaps since the dawn of human civilization. Rational people understand that racism has never been a good thing. Racism impedes our social development, and many groups of people have suffered because of this ignorant and evil practice. Many courageous men and women throughout history have fought for equal rights for all the different races and cultures of the world. But there are still individuals who choose to remain silent and simply do nothing to change what has always been. In this research paper, I want to explore how racism affects the lives of the people who suffer from it and what they did to overcome the persecution that racist behavior brings. These are some of the things that will be explored in this topic.

There are many problems that America faces today; however, one of the most prominent is racial discrimination. Racial discrimination is one of the leading causes of riots and protests that occur in America. There are also many different opinions as to what is racial discrimination and what is not. Many people believe that the murder of someone of a particular race is linked to discrimination while others would disagree. It is important to find a resolution to this issue because it is a growing problem in America that leads to riots and the death of many people. Furthermore, this issue will only continue to get worse unless more people become more accepting of others with different racial backgrounds and ethnicities.

In biopsychosocial theory, discrimination functions as a catalyst for the stress that results in negative health outcomes (Clark, et al., 1999). However, there has been little research, to date, that has examined gender and racial discrimination’s effects on Black women’s health engagement strategies. Studies have found that stress affects food choices and engagement in physical activity (Bjorntorp, 2000; Dallman et al., 2005; Moore-Green et al., 2012; Tryon et al., 2013). For example, Moore-Green et al. found that stress decreased physical activity engagement for African American women. A small amount of research has examined the ways in which racism affects health outcomes such as cardiovascular health in African American men and women (e.g., Guyll, et al.,2003; Williams, Neighbors, & Jackson, 2003). Virtually no research (e.g., Moradi & Subich, 2002) has focused on sexism and racism’s roles in affecting Black women’s health outcomes. Nevertheless, racism and sexism have been identified as critical features of Black women’s lived experiences (Brown, 2003). Media is mainstream children are beginning to use technology at two years old. Which make Black women self-identity began during their childhood. Which make mothers to strive harder to shield their Black daughter from harshness of media. One of the issues is the roots from the time this Black girl was a child. One-way African American women try to help their daughters stand straight in the crooked room is by telling

Racial discrimination involves many factors such as the limit or preference based on color or race and many others. This leads to many challenges facing the inferior party brought by the superior party which include; hate, oppression, suffering and many others. Such lead to lack of unequal treatment based on freedom and human rights which can be expressed through art. A work of art seeks to fulfill various functions; hence, the poem gives me a critical and rational outlook of the necessity of controlling and correcting people to some extent; brings out various emotions and the danger carried by lack of strength and hope while attempting for humanity.