The Fight For Justice Marks A Long Sequence Of Events Towards Their Freedom

Over the last few centuries, the rights and freedoms of various citizens from the United States of America have been compromised throughout history. Racism in the USA has been a topic heavily debated over the years, from the beginning of the black slave trade in the early 17th century, to the movement that worked for the racial desegregation all over America. Although the black people of America have gone through a large struggle to gain their rights and freedoms, there has been success. These successes include the illegalisation of slavery in America, the racial desegregation of various facilities so they were able to be used equally and fairly by all American citizens, and the fall of the Ku Klux Klan and the illegalisation of their ideals

Ever since white Americans colonisation in the United States, African Americans suffered long from the frustration of being discriminated and deprived. African Americans were restricted from associating or mixing

Since a majority of cases revolve around the African American community, analysis will be considered through those cases. African Americans are a community of historically oppressed people. Briefly, slavery was an American institution that enslaved the black race for over 300 hundred years. White superiority dominated American culture and any person of color was viewed as inferior. Slaves did not possess the mental psyche to be law abiding citizens so they had to be under their master’s protection. Although the proslavery ideals are almost two centuries old, the idea of white supremacy still

There are approximately 7 billion people in this world. Each person has a unique combination of traits such as skin tone, face shape, body type, eye color, hair color, and other characteristics. These traits vary due to genetics, environmental factors, and much more. An individual 's race is defined by their physical characteristics and how they differ among others. Race is not defined by the way an individual behaves or portrays themselfes; it is based strictly off of their physical traits. Since America was founded, race has played a significant role in the relations of the citizens in this country. For decades, different races have been stereotyped and been prejudice towards one another, without realizing how invalid their judgements are. Specifically, African Americans have been discriminated by caucasians in America since it’s founding. It began by the enslaving of African Americans, and today, the discrimination and inequality is more hidden in society. Although America has made significant progress in overcoming racial inequality in the country, many African Americans are still being subject to hardships that Caucasian Americans do not face, especially in regards to the justice system.

“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden” (Desmond Tutu). America is truly shaped by human experiences. From The Triangle Trade, to our Founding Fathers owning slaves, to the Civil War, to Civil Rights Movement, and finally to today. Racism has led to a great deal of impaction on the United States. One event that rocked our nation would be the Scottsboro trials in the 1930’s. The Scottsboro case tragedy changed America because for the first time it was made public, heightened the nation's emotions and whites Southerners felt threatened by the colored and their advancements.

America was founded on the idea of a social caste system. From the start of this nation, African Americans were placed at the bottom of this system. After Jim Crow, the criminal justice system took the place of this overt social separation. Minorities are wrongfully convicted day after day as perpetrators who do not abided by the American founding principles. From hundreds of years ago, African Americans were the backbone or the labor behind the masterpiece of this nation. Social status of this country truly separates the wealthy from the impoverished.

The disparate treatment doctrine requires a plaintiff to demonstrate that an employer has treated some people less favorably than others because of their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Three provisions required to prove disparate treatment are (1) the plaintiff must establish a prima facie case of racial discrimination; (2) the employer must articulate some legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for its actions, and (3) the plaintiff must prove that the stated reason was in fact pretextual. Proof of discriminatory motive is critical and may be inferred from the mere fact of differences in treatment. Proof may also be inferred from the falsity of the employer’s explanation for the treatment, (Walsh, 2010).

The company offered inconsistent versions of why Mr. Gill was terminated and who did the termination. They were indifferent to Mr. Gill’s concerns and did nothing to address those employees engaging in blatant racial harassment even after other black employees complained and, most damaging, the company retaliated against Mr. Gill when he complained by terminating his

Racism has been the most provocative topic in American history; it has seemed to transcend other struggles, and fester its way into almost every facet of American culture. It has grown like weeds in an unattended garden in to the ideology of America. Politicians use it as a tool for reelection, corporations use it as a way to exploit, and the media uses it as a way to control. But the underlying question is where did it come from, how did it translate itself into political power, and how and what did African Americans do to combat that power. Many of the answers to

For decades, African Americans have been on a racial discrimination and extremely deadly roller coaster ride for justice and equality. In this new day and age, racial tendencies and prejudice has improved since the 1700-1800s,however, they are slowly going back to certain old ways with voting laws and restaurants having the option to serve blacks or not. It all began with the start of slavery around 1619. The start of the New World, the settlers needed resources England and other countries had, which started the Triangle Trade. The New England settlers manufactured and shipped rum to West Africa; West Africa traded slaves to the West Indies for molasses and money . From the very beginning, they treated African Americans like an object or

Since before the founding of America Africans were mistreated as people. In Africa, they were hunted down and imprisoned by slave traders, who would then throw them in the deplorable hulls of their ships and bring them to 'civilized' countries and sell them as machinery to the highest paying person. After the end of the Civil War in 1864, slavery was made illegal in America, but this did very little to liberate the African American population in the states. For the next 100 years, African Americans fought of their freedom to exercise the rights granted to them by the U.S. Constitution. For many years, states made it nearly impossible for African Americans to register to vote for elected officials, setting up intricate and impossible tests that no one could pass to keep the Africans at bay. Racism, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the banning or segregation of blacks in many

Since the emancipation of slavery, the African Americans had a continuous fight for their complete emancipations and for their civil rights for over one hundred years. The white Americans couldn’t accept and see the African Americans as free human being and equal as them. Their ignorance was making them blind, building in themselves a hate that was unbearable to a human kind to do to the others. That hate overcome any reasonable behave that forced the law to intervene several times for consecutive years.

America has faced a lot of hardships since being created by our founding fathers. We experienced the struggle for freedom, westward expansion, and a nation divided upon itself. However, one of the biggest struggles faced in America is segregation, racism, and the division of people against each other. Since the Civil War it has been one of the greatest conflicts in our nation’s history. Black vs. White is an issue that has been debated from the early beginning of our nation to the civil war to the civil rights movement and even today African Americans are discriminated against.

When African Americans first came to the United States, most of them were brought over to this land from their native homes as slaves, meant to do hard labor on farmlands owned by mostly wicked white plantation owners. They were not treated equally with white people in this country. In fact, African Americans were not even treated as people. Legislation in the United States after the American Revolution determined that a slave only counted as 2/3 of a person. The Dredd Scott Decision by the United States Supreme Court upheld the erroneous belief on the part of early Americans that slaves were "property not people" (Tsesis 2008, page 77). Following the American Civil War and the passage of the 19th Amendment, this changed and African Americans were finally granted citizenship in the United States. However, African Americans were still not anywhere near equal to whites in the United States, particularly throughout the southern states. Jim Crow laws in the south allowed for the segregation of African American and Caucasians in public places, such as bathrooms and schools. Even the United States Supreme Court upheld institutionalized segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Here, the Supreme Court ruled that having separate but equal facilities was still equal. The fact that black schools almost always had fewer and lower quality supplies, limited funds, and less advanced facilities were not taken into consideration with this ruling. This would be the

The human resources department failed in preventing this situation from getting out of hand as an office – environment had already been created where Shawn Brooks could not trust his supervisors. Shawn Brooks was an account executive at Infinity Broadcasting Corporation and was the only African – American among 25 other account executives. How does a big corporation like Infinity allow a hiring policy like that leaving an uncomfortable working environment for employees like Brooks? Collecting all the copies of the book with racist passages was the right course of action by human resources. They acted quickly going back on a book that supposedly didn't reflect the views of the company. However, the company’s actions more so protected them opposed