Racial Discrimination In Society

As children grow up, they become the person they turn out to be because of experiences and the culture and society they grew up in. Nations are affected in the same sense because the people living in a nation affect how the nation is influenced and builds its character.

We have issues: more specifically , the United States has issues, continuous and all-encompassing issues of racial inequality.The United States is experiencing a outburst of racism, as can be seen from the 2014 killings of two unarmed African-American men, to the brutality of white supremacy in Charleston and the string of arsons in black churches across the South. Of course, it’s nothing new for a nation with a long history of extreme racist violence—the most recent lynching-related death occurred in 1981, hardly a lifetime ago, when Michael Donald was hanged by two members of the Ku Klux Klan.The United States, however, continues to avoid its history on race, refusing to confront its past in a “post-racial,” “colorblind” society, and that policy of systemic ignorance is particularly strong when mention of racial equality is brought up. Although the concept of equality has never truly existed in this world, as can be traced back to the very beginnings of recorded history we see the nobles ruling the commoners, conquerors reigning over the conquered, the will of man dominating women; the United States needs to acknowledge the fact that racial inequality still exists within our country and has in no way progressed towards betterment.

Along with misogyny and LGBT+ phobia, racism is one of the many methods of discrimination and bias that still exists today in America. It affects many ethnicities; Asian, Latino, even Indigenous Americans, but racial bias in the United States today especially focuses on African Americans as it did since the times of slavery. How does the race system still exist? The answer is simple; racial bias, like a living creature, will constantly adapt to its surroundings as time passes. Michelle Alexander’s nonfiction book, The New Jim Crow (2010), discusses the several changes made to the racial caste system following slavery and how most African Americans themselves cannot see it in its form today.

Although we seem to see a new news story every day concerning racial bias and blatant racism, it is not a new issue. “We have been engaging in this conversation for as long as I can remember. Fighting this fight for centuries. Caught in a cycle of bias for as long as they can remember.” (Nichols) I believe all the adversity we are facing as a country today can be attributed to the attitudes of the early American settlers who laid the basis for our bias as a country. In fact, historians date racism in America as far back as the 1500’s with the beginning of the Middle Passage and our first look into racially profiling individuals for slavery.

ATTENTION: How is justice presented in our society? No one likes to be treated unjustly. No matter what your race may be or what gender you are; everyone should be treated fairly. For the world to have a moral society, people have to see each other without a sense of bias. When people base their opinions on one aspect of a person, they begin to judge them and look down on them. Justice can be apprehended when everyone is seen as equal and human, no matter what race or gender. The concept of stereotyping places a false impression on a group of people and makes others see them differently than who they are. If people would push back the assumptions that all people who have the same beliefs or ideas are exactly alike, everyone would be viewed

Although racism has changed over time these past 50 years, racism in many ways still exists. Everybody has their own opinion and those opinions are influenced by the public and the media. In some way,

Racism as we know has been a reoccurring theme throughout history. The term itself means when one ethnic group or historical collectivity dominates, excludes, or seeks to eliminate another on the basis of differences that it believes are hereditary and unalterable. Since the beginning of the 17th century this great nation that we call home has placed the burden upon minorities including Native Americans, African

Racism is something many people have witnessed or experienced in communities or in other parts of the United States. Many may wonder, what is racism and how can it affect individual’s life? The typical dictionary defines racism as the prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Discriminating others based on the color of their skin or simply because they are “different” has a significant impact, both on society and the individuals who experience it. There are three keys to understand racism: the biggest level will be institutional racism (government, laws, schools), the intermediate level is personally- mediated racism (motives, and intense by race), and lastly is internalized

Aristotle once said “The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”

Is the society’s draconian attendance towards the people of distinguishable race a fair measure of precaution or an act of discrimination? In the society we live in today, the enactment of racial bias has made a monumental impact, shaping many individuals ' lives by default. However, is it fair for the innocent individuals to be shrouded with the burden of being a particular ‘race’? After witnessing, the incident of Ferguson, I became dreadfully discontented to discovered that people today have self-established the immense belief that people of color are the primary cause of danger, and therefore, they must be regarded as hazardous creatures. Moreover, the reason triggering the detrimental policing was due to the color of the victims, illustrating the ugly truth of racial profiling still remains intact to our society. Although racial profiling and prejudice are disavowed publicly by Americans, many statistics and research on implicit racial bias debated the citizens of the United States still perceive a person 's physical in determining their likeliness to committee crime (Bornstein, Avram). Unfortunately, it is ingrained in today’s society that institutional structures demonstrate persistent inequality and unequal distribution of societal resources (White, Rob).

Being an immigrant to this country, I have always been treated differently. People have laughed at me, bullied and made fun of me simply because I am Indian. I have always wondered that I am just here trying to accomplish something great and help out those in need in any possible. Then why people treat me differently? What have I ever done to them? I have tried to escape these situations in the past by trying to be different from what I really am so that people will like me. But how long would I lie to myself? One day, I told myself I am tired of being someone else and I am just going to be myself and I am not going to care about how I will be treated by others. Due to that significant decision, today I belong with the right people who care about me and I care about

Racism proves to be another issue among a culturally diverse group. One proves to be judged before one has the chance to live up to who one “thinks” they are. According to Anup Shah (2010), “Racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some racial groups are superior to others.”(para. 1) As society becomes more culturally diverse, ignorance proves to take over the thought process of those unwilling and too narrow minded to accept what one does not know. This can not only hurt those directly involved, but indirectly as well. Interaction among those who prove to be culturally diverse proves to increase, and because of these issues arise that at times can be very traumatizing. Racism can limit the mount in which one culture reacts or interacts with another. Take for example those who resemble the men who caused 9/11. Then think about how many women and children, that because they look like those men have been shunned by other cultures and classified as unacceptable or dangerous. The cycle

The violent ideology known as racism is defined by many as “the result of perceiving one group as superior over another” (Quoted in Keister and Darby, 284). This is when a dominant power in a society oppresses the minority power by prejudging the minorities attributes, commonly their race. When defining

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton said, “We have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways”. This quote rings true where equality in the workplace is concerned. In Toni Cade Bambara’s short story “The Lesson”, we see what social discrimination looks like through the eyes of children who are observing a wealthier part of town. In their eyes, they see and injustice and question why it is not being altered into something centered more on equality and equal opportunity. Toni Cade Bambara’s story “The Lesson” is written to make a point about racial discrimination in the workplace and social inequality.

Nothing is equal. That can be said towards the overall lifestyle of the world, including different areas such as in education and in workplaces. Looking closer into the different kinds of segregation seen in today’s society, I noticed that inequality holds the façade of being benign, considering the way it is currently being held, however it is indeed a contemplating issue. As multiple academic journals, books, and inspirational talks have shown me, discrimination should be seen beyond the simple statistics and facts. In the beginning when I was first researching different articles, all that was given were boring and irrelevant information about inequality. With further investigation, I managed to discover strong voiced opinions that were each unique to their own personal views. Though they seemed bias, with tints of factual evidence, those points made the sources interesting and powerful. In the end, I wanted to outreach the different kinds inequalities seen in today’s society, as well as provide distinct solutions for a more equal human environment.