Systematic Racism

In the new proactive book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander dives into the not so complicated racial issues that plague this country that we tend to ignore. In all of history, African Americans have had to constantly fight for their freedoms and the right to be considered a human being in this society. It’s very troubling looking back and seeing where we have failed people in this country. At the turn of the century, when people began to think that we had left our old ways behind, this book reminds us that we are wrong. Racism is still alive today in every way, just in different forms.

For years African Americans had face difficult consequences as a whole in American history. Because of slavery, African Americans were treated like animals by the whites. African Americans may had faced the worst during this time, but one can say that the biggest damages whites made on African Americans were destroying their identity. These poor people were robbed from their native homes and brought to the U. S to be sold as slaves. To this day one can say that many, and if not most of the African American families still have somewhat of an effect on slavery. Discrimination against black whether is from police brutality to high crime rates in African Americans neighborhoods is a form of seeing the bad side of this identity that the white label them as.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s “Fatal Couplings of Power and Difference:Notes on Racism and Geography” speaks honestly of the current state of systemic racism in America and its possible causes using past historical trends. He argues that because racism is so ingrained into the defining moments of our past and so deeply rooted in our political, economic and social systems that it cannot be solved by the short-run remedies being offered. Gilmore accused geography of being the cause of racial issues in America, saying that, “a geographical imperative lies at the heart of every struggle for social justice,” (Gilmore 16).There is so much truth in this statement because without borders or normative behavioral practices there is no differential treatment

As society began to teach the ways of discriminating the Negro people, many began to wonder if the country would heal or ever get back to normal. On the other hand, more whites began to realize that African Americans are just the same as they are,

As America having to realize that even though are now in the twenty first century, America’s dark past was what ultimately created the nation people know of today. It is very important for modern society today to understand that despite of the Emancipation Proclamation, which eliminated slavery, African Americans were kept down and were unable to rise past their station in life for many years to come. Imagine how difficult and hard it must have been of the African Americans to liven through that. They were prisoners in their homeland, they could not speak, do what they wanted to do, and the most important backs lacks the freedoms highlighted in the Constitution of the United States of America, which is the right to participate fully and equally

“America at this moment”, said the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1945, “stands at the summit of the world.” In 1950’s America is propelling economically and has the strongest military in the world. Everywhere there were construction and development. On the other hand, Segregation or the Jim Crow (The term Jim Crow originated from the name of the character in an 1832 minstrel show, where whites performed in black face ridiculed African – American life.) , amongst the colored become the new normal. On buses, trains, hospitals, churches, cemeteries, restaurants, theaters, apartments/houses and even schools African Americans didn’t have equal rights to use them as a fellow Americans. They were separated from whites

Racism has mutiple of dimensions. However, the root problem is the cultural , social and systematic inequality within the black communities. The experiences and obstacles that Black Americans have to face is a critical framework to understand and comprehend the results of the failure for Black Americans to achieve the American dream. “This political context describes the social patterns that mapped a simplistic view of Black poverty that was created due to structural objects including police brutality, housing and job discrimination. and underfunding of schools”(Taylor2016, 35). I urge the federal government to acknowledge and eradicate these issue of systematic racism and to take initiative to address and resolve these issue that are currently

We have came a long way from slavery, yet, stereotypes and racism against not just African Americans but many other races as well. It’s become such a problem, that we hear and use it every day and do not give it a passing thought. In the case of racism against African Americans,

African Americans have been through devastating trials and tribulations before 1865 and so on. Freedom following the Civil War was the beginning to a new face in such a head strong racist’s community. Slavery was only the beginning to the issues and derogatory mishaps in African American history. As if slavery wasn’t enough, blacks were subject to lynching, segregation, minimal to non-paying jobs, as well as simply being put down for having a darker skin tone than “the man”. Although things of this sort occurred, it never brought an end

When it comes to issues such as police brutality and the numerous injustices that the black community endure, the term systematic racism is usually thrown around. Many would go on to ardently deny that such a thing as “systematic racism” exists, believing that it is only a myth made up by the black community to blame society for all their problems.

History is history, but that doesn’t mean it should be hidden, and forgotten. Although America’s past has not been “squeaky clean”, that doesn't mean that we should forget it. One of America's darkest and roughest times was the era of segregation. It was dark and full of hate from both sides and spectrums. In this era many social issues were brought to light by numerous leaders,such as Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X. These issues being: racial prejudice, segregation, violence towards blacks, and the KKK. To better understand American culture, we should look to past voices, to understand today’s social progress.

The early existence of slavery leading to Racism wrote a large part of the American history living a legacy most people will never forget and relive. Unfortunately, the scares left on our ancestors who suffered from slavery have moved on to the next generation, even though some people still might deny the reality of racism. Circumstances happening in our world today; where people of certain colors are being mistreated and undermined automatically as criminals without evidential fact has somehow played a role in discouraging the youth of their capabilities and the potential they have in this world. Even through the adversities, limited job and educational opportunities, and when it looked like there was no hope, some courageous African American men and

Based on cultural history throughout the United States dating back to the early 1900’s, the U.S. is one of the countries with contentious topics relating racial criticism, diligence amongst different societies, and injustice. African Americans have been treated unfairly for decades, despite the years that have gone by and the laws established to provide equal rights for all Americans living in the U.S.

History scripts the longevity of the cruel act of racism in our great country. Since Colonial times, the formidable act of segregation by color has been prevalent. The precedence of the inferior status of the African American race ruins any chance for Black Americans to live a life free of animosity. Racism infiltrates nearly every aspect of American life, from politics to religion and many aspects in-between. Throughout American History, descendants from any ethnicity other than that of the superior White race seems to result in a problematic life with an endless flow of social judgment. As a result, influential entities such as The Black Panther Party were formed in an attempt to establish equality among the different races.

In the past, it is true that African American have suffered injustice, however, today there are still some wounds that needs healing from harsh treatment blacks people experience from whites people back during the civil right movement. Now, some whites are in positions where they are able to use their authority and demand unnecessary respect from minorities in certain situations, just so they could be in control. “In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand” (Baldwin, 2000, p31). For