The Prevalence Of Anti-Black Tennes In Canada

“The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.” US Representative, John Lewis said this in his return to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial he spoke on 54 years ago, during the March on Washington. Racism has been around since the beginning of time, but it is not human nature. Racism is something that is taught, and given the amount of time that has passed since To Kill A Mockingbird and the March on Washington, one would think that racism wouldn’t be a serious issue any more. Although race relations have improved along with other social issues from the time of To Kill Mockingbird, racism and discrimination are major problems in today’s society.

Immigration policies have been under fire for their racist under- or overtones. As Rees states, "Canadian immigration policy has historically always been determined by racial preferences." Institutionalized racism is a problem in Canada, in spite of the many official policies and programs designed to manufacture an equitable society. For example, Canada's Human Rights Commission and Employment Equity Act are both admirable but "Canada fails to fully implement" their guidelines (Song). Racial profiling is also a problem in the Canadian law enforcement and immigration sector. One study shows that Canadian residents who are African or black receive "harsher treatment" than white residents, and are also "overrepresented in police statistics of charges and arrests," (Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants).

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.

Racism is very prevalent in today’s society against Indigenous people in Canada. They face many forms of individual and institutionalized racism. According to LaRocque, Racism is prejudice or discrimination based on the belief that one or one 's group is innately or genetically superior to another. Racists believe that “race” determines qualities such as intelligence, innovation, creativity and even morality” (N.D). People have been taught the stereotypes of Indigenous people whether it be from the educational system, health system, court system and many other institutions in Canada.

Canada before working towards becoming a just society was a very discriminative place. During the events of World War One,WWI black and Chinese Canadians were prevented from joining the war along with aboriginals. Women were treated the same at the time, it was common for most women to stay at home wives and take care of the children. This was the stereotypical family at the time and was believed to be the ideal family too. Canadians thought poorly of minorities and even claimed it was to keep them safe, the aboriginals were an example, Canadians claimed the enemies might believe that they are savages which was a reflection of how they truly felt. Minorities were clearly being treated worse than the majority, they were seen as inferior and only good for

There has been a significant body of literature which has attested to the veracity of the argument that black Canadians are victimized via racial profiling. For example, the Commission of Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System found that the majority of black respondents surveyed had been treated unfairly by the Canadian criminal justice system (Wortley and Owusu-Bempah, 2011, p.133-134). Furthermore, Canadian research studies have consistently revealed that blacks are more likely to come into negative police contact compared to Caucasians (Wortley and Owusu-Bempah, 2011, p. 135). Alarmingly, suspected black offenders are also more likely to be shot and experience use of force by Canadian law enforcement personnel than their white counterparts (Wortley and Owusu-Bempah, 2011, p. 138).

Racism in the South had remained a constant from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of reconstruction. Before the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment, slave owners did not only use racism to justify slavery, but they used race to stop the endeavors of their slaves. Document 6 Cites how slave owners told their slaves they could not learn to read or write because African Americans did not possess the intelligence to do so. Some slave owners actually believed this racist notion while others lied to prevent their slaves from learning to read and developing an efficient form of communication. After the end to slavery, racism in the South continued to live on. In addition to day to day racism, groups formed to ensure that African

The act of targeting or judging someone based on their race is called racial profiling and it is an issue especially in law enforcement. Racial profiling occurs more often than we know. It has been all over the news with several prevalent cases, but acts of racial profiling may occur almost every day. Police officers make arrests based on skin colour or information about that person that could indicate their heritage, mostly their names. Acts of racial profiling can be made subconsciously, the idea to prejudge someone based in their race already ingrained in one’s head without realizing, but in the court of law racial profiling is not legal. Under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian citizens have the right to not be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned. When an accused is racially profiled, they are most likely being arbitrarily detained based on the colour of their skin.

Racism has been an ongoing problem for decades, but now it has evolved into more complications rather than black people versus white people and wanting equality.

2013), these Aboriginal women and girls are being mistreated, about ten percent of Canada's homicides are represented by the Aboriginal female population(Native Women's Association of Canada, 2010). The report states that "Aboriginal women are almost three times more likely to be killed by a stranger than non-Aboriginal women are" (Native Women's Association of Canada, 2010), this is an example of how racism is shown against Aboriginals. Anti- racist theory looks at social situations just like this one through a historical racism lens, in an attempt to end racial oppression (Ravelli, B and Webber, M.

Racism has brought about many challenges in our society and it has changed in a negative way because every day as the Aboriginals, Blacks, Asians, Middle Easterners increase in Canada, so are the most racist people. It has undergone very little positive change in the society. In fact, we are doing way worse than our ancestors did because we cannot just function without being backward minded prejudiced people and this is very bad. By doing this, we are telling our children that it is okay to be racist against their Aboriginal, Black, Asian and Middle Easterner classmates.

Many will agree that the root of the horrendous conducts stipulated in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report is an old classical racism; but has this classical racism vanished or just done a cosmetic face lift over time? It would be naïve to think that the report in question had any impact on the basis of racism in Canada. Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada may have opened some eyes, but correspondingly, has not and cannot eradicated the source of racism, so as to stop racist based injustices from reoccurring. The probability of repeating such racism stipulated in TRC report looks feeble in today’s Canada, nonetheless a kind of modern racism which is complicated, hard to penalize, and is multi-dimensional, that has developed in the recent years, and needs to be addressed, exists. As defined contemporary racism is the

Sociology Mock Experiment on the Prevalence of Racism and Stereotypes in the Ontario Education System

"The legacy of past racism directed at blacks in the United States is more like a bacillus that we have failed to destroy, a live germ that not only continues to make some of us ill but retains the capacity to generate new strains of a disease for which we have no certain cure." - Stanford Historian George Frederickson.

For the section 1: a proscribed discrimination in race, color and or place of origin. Serebrin (2015) suggested that Seventeen per cent of Canadians said they have been the subject of racial discrimination and Sixteen