The Role Of Discrimination In The United States

Discrimination and prejudice are widely known in United States history. In the 1960's the civil rights movement demanded legislation and passed laws, which banned discrimination. Five decades later, it still continues in our society. Discrimination and prejudice occur when a group of people feel they are superior to another, and can be based on a person's color, race, national origin, religion, sex and gay couples.

With the advancement of suffrage to equal pay, over the last century, women’s rights have progressed immensely. Through historic marches and demonstrations across the United States, women protested for their equal place in politics and social progress. Despite the fear-mongering components used in achieving these rights, women’s rights are still thoroughly debated within society today. Over the last century, incredible and unreachable goals have been fulfilled for women, such as the right to vote and a sense of equal state in the “Free World,” and can only improve in the years to come.

“No Society treats its women as well as its men” is a quote from the United Nations Development Program when they were asked about the issue of gender inequality, which was featured in the Chicago Tribune News. Fifty years earlier, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which specified that everyone, regardless of gender, was entitled to the same rights and freedoms (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Fifty years later though, countries are still falling short of achieving the goal of gender equality. Many find it hard to believe that the United States is among the countries that have yet to fulfill the goal of achieving gender equality. Women began the fight for equality in 1848 by

The roles of women, and the views society have on them have changed dramatically throughout the past century due to the movements and events that have taken place in America’s history. The reason for the change corresponds directly to the Women’s Suffrage movement, the rise of feminism and the Women’s Rights Movement. The transition of women’s roles in the 20th century has encouraged them to fight for their rights but unfortunately the fight has not been finished. Even with successes, like the ratification of the 19th amendment, and various laws protecting women, they still lacking equal rights in America and it wont change with out the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). If the Equal Rights Amendment is passed women will have the same equality as men under the constitution, discrimination will cease to exist, and as a world leader, America cannot afford to see this issue last any

The example is always black. A statement that pretty much summed up what 's wrong with America today. Every time you turn on the news, you see something negative about minorities. The white population commits the same crimes and the minorities, but the minorities are I totally agree with Marc Lamont Hill 's views on the racism that still exists in the world. Minorities are unfairly targeted on a regular basis. Whether they are unfairly treated in the workplace,school systems, or by the police department, it seems to be getting worse every day. The recent rash of police shooting of unarmed minorities is clear evidence of this.

In Elusive Equality: Women 's Rights, Public Policy, and the Law, Susan G. Mezey touches several topics that highlight the trials and tribulations women have face over the year just to get one step closer to being considered “legally equaled” to a man. The author talks about the origin behind the discrimination of women rights using examples from multiply court cases and relates them to situations that women faced today such as women in the workplace, sexual harassment, abortion rights, and eliminating gender bias in education. The authors main point was to inform and stress the importance of seeking constitutional equality, and she used those topics as an example to where women were discriminated against and treated unfairly. She exemplified how such laws were used with sex-based classifications and that men and women were treated different but ironically the laws disadvantaged men more than women. Discussing the topic of women’s rights, the author exemplified many strengths and weakness throughout the book.

Although many places in the world have made many advancements in granting women rights equivalent to those of men, there are still far too many places that refuse to recognize that women’s rights is still an issue, and an important one at that. Many developing countries in the world have caused outrage in the population of women as a whole and rifts in society and its social order. Worldwide, people are done with the fact that women are still not treated as equals. Although advancements have been made for the population of women globally in places like the US, Canada, and many parts of Europe; many developing countries throughout the world have refrained from allowing women equal opportunity politically, economically, and culturally.

Have you ever had a conversation about pay with a female coworker that was equally skilled only to realize she was payed less? Have you Seen someone bullied or harassed solely based off the color of their skin? Have you ever seen someone be treated differently or unfairly based off of their religion? Then you know what discrimination looks like in everyday life in a variety of ways. Discrimination is everywhere even in modern day America and it happens every day with sometime fatal results to such hate.

America is considered to be a country where the white’s authorizations are unearned, where social status is prominent and the whites are exceedingly knowledgeable. It is said to be true that once you have honored a culture or just anyone in general, they will honor you back. We have to believe that everyone is at once a noble and servant and every person on earth is equal. Furthermore, in this superiority population, it is very necessary for the minority such as African American, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Mexicans, etc. to bring together to create a better acceptance and position in America. There are too many people getting harassed, especially, killed and being sent to jail, and whatever else the case may be due to racist people. It is not

In 1848 the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with the Seneca Falls Convention but before that moment women were denied some of the most basic human rights. Since the passing of the 19th amendment small steps have been taken in the right direction for women's rights and we have a long way to go.

Civilians in the United States should think of the US population in the way that the US Marine Corp does. Marines consider themselves the “green Americans” (Wright, 2016). There is no race, religion, alternate label, or minority in the US Marine Corp. The definition of racism is; the belief that each race has physical characteristics or skills specific to that race and that these physiognomies and abilities cause them to be superior or inferior to other races. The US government propagates racism with labels such as African-American, Caucasian, Hispanic, Latino, and Asian-American. The apathy that we have toward minorities and immigrants

The gender gap has been a pressing issue throughout American history, as a myriad of women have expressed through outlets such as public assemblies, literature, and speeches. There have been three waves of the women’s movement, each targeting a variety of issues within each era. The third wave was in 1995, where Hillary Clinton spoke in Beijing, China, claiming that women’s rights were the same as human rights, that every aspiring girl deserved the civil liberties that every man was given around the world. Moreover, the movement had shifted towards women in developing nations and those in poverty around the world. In her speech, Clinton develops a political framework in which American ideals equate to basic human rights that can be accessible to individuals on an international level.

Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States depended on whether the government was able to rule discrimination, by private businesses, a crime. This issue was also brought up in the 1880s, throughout the Civil Rights cases. Decades of discrimination led to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Civil rights are a person's individual rights set by law. Black Americans, denied their civil rights, protested in the streets. Congress responded to the social unrest by passing comprehensive civil rights legislation, the Civil Rights Act of 1964.The federal government’s involvement in making “private discrimination” (A) illegal under the Constitution. There are certain powers which the Constitution reserves for the national government and for the states. When the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the constitution, it gave more power to the government. Also the Fifth Amendment says that no person shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."These changes were seen as good since the government was trying to rebuild the south, after the Civil War, also known as the Reconstruction period, on a “foundation of equality” (B) Limiting the state's power the Fourteenth Amendment forbade discrimination made by the them, but never limiting anything like so for private businesses like hotels, restaurants, etc. A law in 1875 was passed by Congress that made such discrimination illegal.

Many times, no one agency or office will want to take the blame, or be known for discriminating against minorities or low-income families. This causes police departments and prosecutors to not take this fault, and leave it for the other party to absorb so they can defend themselves against any wrong doing. It is seen in statistics that police officers do disproportionately arrest those who are black, and in “2008 African Americans represented 12 percent of the population, but they represented 40 percent of all arrests for violent crimes and 56 percent of all robbery arrests” (Anderson, 2000, p. 131). When considering this, many times documentaries, such as the one our class has seen, Law and Disorder in Philadelphia, show the circumstances officers are placed in, especially when patrolling neighborhoods that are primarily populated by minorities or lower-class families. Furthermore, it is that these officers are supplying the attorneys with the criminals to defend, making it to where they are not controlling the kind of individual that appears in the court room or in their office.

American history proves that there has been an obvious change in women’s rights (Women’s Rights Timeline 1). There is the nineteenth amendment which gave women the right to vote, the Title IX civil rights act which gave women an equal opportunity as men for education, and even now in 2016 there is Hillary Clinton who has and equal opportunity as her opposing male candidate, Trump in this year’s election (Women’s Rights Timeline 2). These are all examples of what America has achieved throughout the years in terms of women’s rights but even now with many laws in place to protect women’s rights, there is still gender discrimination that continues to limit Americas progression towards a more equally gender right country (Morabito 2016). Women today still face many struggles because just by being a woman alone can come at a disadvantage in many cases so although America has addressed some gender inequality issues in our history, we should also focus on the discrimination that women face daily merely for their gender (Morabito 2016).