Racism 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.

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Racism is a national problem all across america, almost everywhere you go there will be someone or something that will be racist. “In 2012, 51% of Americans expressed anti-black sentiments in a poll; a 3% increase from 2008” racism has been rising every year. Racism may come in many different ways, but the outcome is not different it will always be the same. It can make those who are its victims feel angry, unwelcome, unworthy and intimidated. In its extreme form, it can lead whole communities to persecute others, and to be indifferent to their suffering.

From the beginning of time where slavery began, there is no sure way to know what stemmed the root of racism and discrimination. But who is to say that racism is a term that is only associated with Blacks, African Americans, or those of African descent. Racism according to Merriam Webster dictionary is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Even though it is a term that may be applied to the lack of respectful treatment against any race outside an individual’s own, it is more seemingly connected to the discrimination against blacks in today’s society. The black man as well as woman was made to feel inferior to his or her white male and female counterparts and they both were treated as such. Because of the oppression of people who have been discriminated against over time, there has been a gradual uprising and revolt against the treatment that they have received.

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.

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!

Punishment in today's society is littered with unjustified actions that lead to the destabilization in regards to the standards of everyday life of the general populace. African Americans and other racial minorities in the U.S deal with the tribulations of prejudice incarceration, police brutality, and institutionalization every waking day as opposed to the racial majority. It is easy enough to state such things in such a way that it may come off as meaningless accusations. However, a near endless abundance of studies and statistics, such accusations transform to facts that need to be heard. Living in a world where racial injustice is put on the back burner of political topics and discussions, it is this time where the truth must be unveiled to make a difference in our lives and the lives of our future generations.

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.

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.

Jail sentence statistics are an exceptional way to clarify the level of current racial discrimination in the U.S., an AA male born in 2001 has a 32% chance being sent to jail in his life compared to a Hispanic non-white having a chance of 6% (Do Something, 2015). Subsequently, discrimination is still exceedingly rampant in our modern day American society and takes on countless forms throughout our culture (Kessler, Mickelson, & Williams, 1999). Therefore, these acts of discrimination impact the family from at the core level, the microsystem. Moreover, the transference of adult’s experiences of discrimination and negative stressors significantly impacts the parent to parent and child to parent relationships within a household (Rice & Lashawn, 2008). The effects of one incident of racial discrimination is wide reaching and intimately influences home environment. Being a rampant societal problem in our world is the widespread presence as well as tolerance of racial discrimination and its detrimental effect on the family unit (Carter & Forsyth, 2010). Studies have presented findings that there is a higher probability that a U.S. policer may frisk someone from the African American or LatinX communities than a Caucasian person (Do Something, 2015). The following will provide a review and critique of the literature on racial discrimination and its impact on family wellness with a primary focus on child well-being.

People all over the world are fighting against racism every day. Some are mentioned in the news, and some are just left alone. We are going to tell you about some of the most important people in the fight against racial discrimination and how they fought for their rights. The people we are going to talk about are Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks and the NFL players.

The psychological source of racial discrimination is complex and not fully understood; however, the impacts that it has on the victimized groups or individuals are catastrophic. The constitution of the United States Of America, states, that all men are created equal, yet these words do not ring true for all Americans; In fact, historically and presently, African Americans are too often excluded from that equality. While this exclusion fosters discrimination throughout various sectors of our lives, it primarily, negatively follows us in the unblinded justice system and unequal classrooms. These two forms of racial discriminations are dangerous to the lives of African Americans and breeds an inequality that renders African Americans as casualties.

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.

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.

A growing number of studies reveal that racial bias plays a significant role in whether a convicted criminal receives the death penalty. One big player of the death penalty is discrimination towards poor people and african americans. Opposers think that concerns about racial discrimination are misplaced because there is no convincing evidence that race is an influence in the system of the death penalty. The implementation of capital punishment includes discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and social classes (Is). There is evidence that shows that race is an important factor in determining who will be sentenced to die and who will receive a lesser punishment for the same crime. Opposers of the death penalty argue that the death penalty is unfair, that blacks and poor people are more likely to receive the death penalty than are whites (Death). In Alabama, 43 percent out of their 117 death row inmates were black and yet blacks made up only 26 percent of their population. In Louisiana, 68 percent out their 41 death row inmates were blacks, and yet 25 percent of the state’s population were made up of blacks. In South Carolina, 42 percent of their 50 death row inmates are black, yet blacks make up 30 percent their population. In Virginia, 50 percent of their 47 death row inmates are blacks, yet blacks make up 19 percent of their population. (Evans) Across the nation about 80 percent of the victims in the underlying murder in death penalty cases are black, while 50 percent