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.

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?

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.

Past history reveals centuries of oppression towards people of color, thus a continuous oppression remains evident in the post-civil rights era.These systems of oppression maintains itself covertly through institutions and social systems producing racial inequalities. The land of the free, which was built on the backs of slaves, suffers from its inability to address reparations for slavery and fails to acknowledge the legacy of slavery in present today through a persistent racial hierarchy. Although the post-civil rights era marked the moment the US guaranteed everyone, regardless of their race, their full civil rights and liberties. This somehow signified the notion that racism had been abolished. However, this did not end the nation’s racial tensions and racism began to take new subtler forms. In the United States, race determines one's life chances, experiences, and opportunities; it is considered to be a society with racialized social systems.

The United States of America has an extensive history of racial conflicts between white southerners and African Americans. After the ratification of the thirteenth Amendment in 1865, slavery was abolished in the whole nation of America. However, the racial tension between white southerners and African Americans did not end with the eradication of slavery. Although the government granted African Americans citizenship and civil rights, they were not entirely free from practicing these entitlements. During the repressive Jim Crow Era, separation between the white and the African American race exacerbated as discrimination, inequality, and oppression spread throughout the South. Racial tension intensifies with the implementation of segregation, and races were further divided from one another. From the period between 1880s and 1920s, African Americans’ rights were restricted by white southerners through discrimination between labor and capital—which prevented them from any form of economic and social advancement, establishment of the “separate but equal” doctrine—legalization of segregation, political disfranchisement—restriction to right of suffrage, and through practice of prevalent violence—such as lynching in the Southern States.

To start off, Colin Kaepernick started his movement last year around the months of August and September. It began with him being seen sitting down during the national anthem during preseason in August to him actually kneeling down in September; a start of a silent protest. Kaepernick then later gave an explanation to his actions via NFL website stating, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color” (SBNation). In other words, his reasoning for not

Racial bias is still a very active issue in society today. The aim is to further your understanding of racial bias in business hiring, which is important because racial bias is continually used by businesses in hiring decisions. The prevalence of racial bias in business hiring, potential interventions, and explanations of why this happened will be touched upon in this paper. How prevalent is racial bias in business hiring today and how can it be mediated?

As our nation faces a new president and the realities of politics in a post-Obama world, the big issue that stops conversations cold, is still the question of race in America. Since the recent victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S Presidential elections, racial tensions in the United States have been anything but united. Despite the many accomplishment made by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, Many Americans are still finding that equality is still an obstacle, especially in the area of inclusion and economic progress. Slogans like “Make America Great Again” rang throughout Trump’s political campaign. According to Michael Reigh, in the past twenty-five years there has been virtually no permanent improvement in the economic position especially for African Americans.

Racial prejudice in the workplace today presents itself in a different fashion than it did in the past, and can be hard to identify. However its effects are still present, impacting hiring processes, wage compensation, feedback, and promotion, and ultimately playing a role in the career paths of people of color. This report will briefly examine three articles focused on the topic of modern workplace racism, the connections to the world of business, and potential solutions to the issue.

Racial discrimination is rooted in U.S. history. The enslavement of Blacks and murders of Native Americans by the early Europeans, are representative of this. The context of America’s history with race shapes the minds of physicians both implicitly and overtly (Feagin & Bennefield, 2014). Studies have shown that physicians believe White patients are “more intelligent”, Black patients “lack the drive” to adhere to instructions, and non-White patients cannot be trusted (Feagin & Bennefield, 2014).

Throughout history, people have immigrated to the United States for various reasons. Whether it is economically, politically, or socially; people of different races, traditions, religion, etc. are determined to start a life in America. Once immigrants settle they start to develop their own neighborhoods where they can unite and openly express one’s own culture, traditions, and customs but remain within the American restraints of what is acceptable. New York, in particular, began embracing this idea of ethnicity. From there, neighborhoods such as Western Heights and Harlem prospered. Though, with divided neighborhoods comes crime and gang warfare. In addition, dominance and control were sought between the different turfs (boundaries). Though integration was thought to reduce gang warfare, boundaries were established by neighborhoods which caused race related crimes and exclusion upon other ethnicities.

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

Political, economic, environmental, and social issues are only a few of the many kinds of issues that occur around the world. One issue that every human being is bound to experience in their life is a social issue. There is an ongoing list of social issues that people need to be aware of such as the access to education, human trafficking, immigration, gender inequality, and child care. Although each one of those issues is just as important as the other, one of the biggest issues that individuals encounter in their daily lives, especially in the United States, is racial discrimination.

Race today is crucial because there is still prejudices against black communities or people of color. One major issue that is caused through racial discrimination is police brutality. There have been racial profiling reports that have resulted to and created problems such as looting, civil lawsuits that are taken to court, and excessive media attention. In many of these cases, the victims are African American. Most reports on the news detail a story about an African American who has been a victim of police brutality. In many of these cases, police officers claim that the victims posed a threat or were a danger to their own well being.

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.