Spacial Segregation In The New World

Why was segregation even a thing in the first place. I hate the thought of segregation because the people in my surroundings are so diverse and it’s awesome. Oh gosh, here comes the ranting!

In Spite of the devastating history of segregation in the United States. A lot has changed in the past fifty years since segregation ended. The United States shifted from arresting African Americans for using “white only” facilities to integrated schools all over the country. Influential individuals such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr helped pave the way for African Americans to live as equals to along with their white counterparts in the United States of America.

In her 2012 TEDx Talk, “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion”, Peggy McIntosh discusses how race is a privilege system and how white people are given an advantage without even realizing it. In her lecture McIntosh says, “These privilege systems, which locate us above and below the hypothetical line of social justice, were invented and we were born into them. And we all know both sides and that is the reason for compassion, about the sadness of having been born into systems that gave us such… such different ‘politics of location’”. Here, it seems that McIntosh’s main goal is to inform people that we are born into a privilege system because of our skin color and the only way that we can prevent a social hierarchy we must be able to recognize that we are all different. I think that the human population should be able to identify that people are different and have compassion for the differences in society our world today could have little to no race issues. After listening to McIntosh’s arguments, I support the ideas she makes throughout her works and I find that privilege systems are still prominent in today’s society.

As Americans, we have failed in the effort to uphold the truth “...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” (The Declaration of Independence). For hundreds of years, we have failed to reach a state of true equality.Though through the years we have made significant strides, racial stereotypes and prejudice still haunt our society today. Hate and division have already left their ugly scars on United States history in the form of slavery, segregation, and inequality. Now we must look to the healing redemption of peace and love to bring us back together.

In Dr. King’s “Where Are We?”, he emphasizes the struggle America goes through with contradictions. Even though civil rights legislation has been passed, the racial inequality persists because a legal document cannot change the inner conflict and inner morals that some people hold. Being raised in a fixed social structure, that African-Americans are lesser than whites, many people find it hard to let those beliefs go.

It is clearly apparent in society that segregation causes unneeded violence and hatred that can be stopped once everyone learns to respect and notice their differences. Although, this transformation does not seem to be as easy as it sounds. In this case, fear impacts equality and when fear prevents equality, people 's’ opinions are not able to be heard, leading to discrimination and injustice. The fear of differing ideas and opinions makes it hard to reach independence and freedom because a negative mindset is preventing the transformation. Throughout history and into today, the largest injustice in our society deals with racial prejudice, and the fear of emerging cultures often leads to superiority with the majority of the population and inferiority with the minority.

As an inhabitant of planet earth, I have watched the people grow and prosper and then fall back to old habits. Years ago, we were separated by race and even though we claim that time is over, it is not. Our country is a great example of segregation because we not only segregate by race, but by gender and sexual orientation as well. America was founded on preconceived expectations of gender and race leading to a segregation of consciousness that structures opinions around the injustices of stereotypes.

Race is a term that society has created. The term has had a long history within the United States and has grown in both the complexity of its meaning and effects as time has progressed. Before race and physical characteristics were used as a way of dividing people, nation’s would sort their population based on religion, social status and language. The concept of Race and Racism has proven to be enduring, and has had underlying effects on our nation’s social and economic structure. Race has altered the fate of every one of us, causing vast socioeconomic disparities in America. In recent years, scholars, anthropologists and intellectuals have come to understand some of the devastating effects racism has had on North Americans and have recognized the need for widespread change. Race has not only permeated the economic and social opportunity of Americans, it has established a society of spitefulness and an environment of advantages and disadvantages that greatens the opportunity of light-skinned people at the expense of dark-skinned people.

Race is invisible to white, because they don’t have to think about it. When white people are in poverty, they never think to consider their skin color as a factor to why they are. Whites are mostly oblivious to this happening in general, because it does not happen to them.

You would think problems with racism would be over, and that’s mostly true. Although, that’s how it’s like today their was a time where it wasn't that simple.For example, in Oklahoma a young boy named William and his father were waiting in line for water turned out to be getting disrespected when it wasn't needed. According to the passage, A Tile of Segregation, as they waited 30 minutes for water, finally getting there turn were stopped by white men making them wait until every white men waiting behind them got theirs first.After they were finished they got their water and left.As they were walking out William's father said something he would never forget, “What you saw there was real hatred and prejudice.But this is

The beginning keynote speaker for the Social Work Teach-In, Reverend Douglas VanDoren, made a compelling speech on the concepts of racism and how White privilege contributes to the increased oppression of certain vulnerable populations. A statement that he made that resonated with me was, “We should see the difference in color. We should not be colorblind.” He made it clear to his audience that each of us should recognize the differences that individuals have and the cultural norms that they possess. With each person’s differences, there is a chance that communities will need to recognize the resources that are now necessary and what positive aspects different cultures could bring to community involvement.

CJ 303 Applying Knowledge Paper Ceara Wasden Question #4  Residential segregation is the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighborhoods. Historical practice of de jure segregation, convert discrimination, and group choice are all factors that resulted in residential segregation. (p.89) Residential segregation still maintains the racial inequality.

The redlining practices of the Federal Government established economic segregation in San Antonio. Denying minorities access to federally backed home loans put them at an economic disadvantage when it comes to accumulating wealth. This also creates a cycle of poverty and crime in those neighborhoods.

Race relations has been a big problem in the history of the United States. Segregation was the act of separating one race from another. In the U.S. it was ultimately the African Americans being separates from the whites. Two famous cases that were taken by the Supreme Court that dealt with segregation was Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education. Plessy v Ferguson dealt with segregation in public places, Brown v Board of Education had to do with segregation in schools, and the Supreme Courts decision on these cases changed the course of history in America.

From the distinction and separation by skin color in white, black and colored in the cities, comes the literal meaning of the term apartheid, which was initially named after the word meaning nothing more than separation; from the Dutch: separately (apart) and district (heid). The word was originally only the Afrikaans translation of the English word "segregation", which was previously used for the existing practices in South Africa. The Afrikaner nationalists took this translation and circulated it to underline that they regarded their policy as something new. They developed a whole heap of new explanations and justification patterns for the doctrine of apartheid in order to be held legitimate, but in principle was no more different than any other former colonial racism. Although there was always racial segregation in the colonial period, the system of apartheid promoted new space for social tensions and resistance to rise.