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    The President knew that no matter the outcome from this war, Black people would not be treated as equal. The Northern states won the Civil War which unfortunately, would not end the racial discrimination and violence. After the war ended, many Southern States did not change their racist violence towards African Americans. The opposition is explained by Kaczorowski by stating, “Former Confederates tenaciously adhered to a philosophy of state sovereignty and refused to respect national authority. They

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    improved a lot since the 1600s, America still has some progress to make. Racial discrimination is the hatred of one person by another—or the belief that another person is less than human—because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor (adl.org). Americans try to overlook the inequalities of the world and pretend that racism does not exist anymore, only it very much does. Dating back to the 1600’s, African Americans were treated as less than human and not equal to whites. Up until

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    legal organizations and communities that related to the racial discrimination issues in America (United States Department of Labor). Moreover, some of the sources also retrieved from well-known American newspapers, such as Washington Post (These ten charts show the black-white economic gap hasn’t budged in 50 years, 2013), which make the data and information are always pay attention and focused on problems that happened in America based on American perspective. Another reason that makes the sources used

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    Racial discrimination is the ground root of disparities letting African Americans to low socioeconomic status and poor health outcomes. Why disproportionality in health is so high among African Americans in the United States? Disparities limit the continuity of improvement in overall quality of care and population health and result in poor health outcomes as well as unnecessary costs. Despite an upsurge focus on reducing disparities and increasing a set of advantages to address disparities in the

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    Racial discrimination has been a problem stemming from the very beginning of our country and has continued on to present day. The fight for equality and against such discrimination against African Americans has been a long fight and a variety of leaders, with their own methods, have played a large role in influencing many. All the African American leaders against racial discrimination could mutually agree that their rights were suppressed and there was clear injustice. Notable leaders between the

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    of their race. However, there was a different story of racial discrimination back in American history. Overtime there are many changes for racial discrimination that has been made in the treatment of the people who build, serve, and protect our country in different ways, those people are the African-American and the Native Americans. One of the most important group of people who are a big part of American history are African-American. They went through a lot of service and labor journey for

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    Racial discrimination and prejudices of African Americans is a constant theme in American society. More specifically, during World War II, Americans questioned the concept of racial identity domestically and abroad; is it a part of one’s innate identity or a social construct? In 1942, New York Times Editor Nicholas Wade asserts in “The Troublesome Inheritance” that larger craniums of Anglo Saxons correlate to enhanced intelligence when compared to other races (Wade 56). Wade’s flawed biological assertion

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    experiencing oppression, therefore there is not a recognition of racial discrimination. While this seems counter-intuitive to believe that not experiencing racism should create a less discriminate society, the underlying determinate for this segregation stems from the inability to understand the hardships experienced by the African American community. The veil covering the eyes of these fraternities and sororities causes this discrimination and prevents the opportunity for the black community to join

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    is today, part of its history involves Africans forcibly being enslaved. Dating back to the beginning and to the end of slavery, they never received appropriate and equal compensation for their hard work. Unfortunately, these slaves who provided the involuntary labor are dead, but many of their descendants are not. In order to reinforce that racism is unacceptable and intolerable, the U.S. government should provide reparations for the descendants of African slaves such as and not limited to, free

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    the contrary to the White Anglo American physical composition. Although great strides have been made to enact laws that contest racial discrimination, there has been little progress for the discriminating factor "immigrant". Events like the 1960 's which focused to end the racial segregation and discrimination of African Americans and enacted a legal precedence affirming legal protection of the each and every citizen regardless of color. While racial discrimination continues to divide us it has cleverly

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