Racial Discrimination
Racial discrimination has been a part of human history since the beginning of organized civilizations, and has stood the test of time better than most would care to admit. Even though hundreds of years separate us from those ancient time, the idea of superior races is still seen in modern day with alarming frequency. Racial discrimination is the belief that all members of a race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race and often used to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race (“Race/Color Discrimination” Para 1). While predominantly when we envision racism and those affected, we think of African Americans during the time of slavery in the 1800’s, but the truth is, minorities still …show more content…
I chose to begin by focusing on the relevance of mass discrimination. The civil right era was one of America’s greatest modern displays of mass social discrimination and prejudice and is where I would argue is the last time discrimination in general got an adequate amount of national attention. Today we are bombarded with statistics that support racial discriminations presence in almost every type of intuition, so why is it that we have seen such a lack in effort over the last 40 years? Recently we have seen its increasing presence in the justice system, the U.S department of justice has been under scrutiny the past few years due to racial bias among police and court staff. The U.S. Constitution and federal statutes prohibits racially discriminatory actions by law enforcement agencies but it’s been known for years that African Americans and Latinos are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people. For example in New York City, 80% of traffic stops made were that of black and Latinos, and 85% of those people were searched, compared to a mere 8% of white people stopped. (Wolf, Para 10) There are countless statistics supporting the fact that the …show more content…
Now if this meant public school for a few of their earlier years I would want it to be a place where I felt confident of a few simple things; one being that wherever it is they are at school, equality within the classroom is held paramount. While researching, I found some articles of discrimination in the education system that had me second guessing those few years, especially if I had African American children. A survey held in 2012 by the Education Department 's Office of Civil Rights, highlights longstanding inequities on how schools leave minority students at a disadvantage. The survey revealed that minority students are expelled at triple the rate as there white peers as well as less likely to get access to teachers with experience. (Resmovits, para 7). How can these thing be possible if they were delivering on the promise of an equal education? Such discrimination can impede education for students and puts them at greater risk of dropping out of school. If they say the kids are our future, and they aren’t getting the opportunities they need to succeed and be members of our society, then we might be in
Racial discrimination has been a part of human history since the beginning of organized civilizations, and has stood the test of time better than most would care to admit. Even though hundreds of years separate us from those ancient time, the idea of superior races is still seen in modern day with alarming frequency. Racial discrimination is the belief that all members of a race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race and often used to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race (“Race/Color Discrimination” Para 1). While predominantly when we envision racism and those affected, we think of African Americans during the time of slavery in the 1800’s, but the truth is, minorities still …show more content…
I chose to begin by focusing on the relevance of mass discrimination. The civil right era was one of America’s greatest modern displays of mass social discrimination and prejudice and is where I would argue is the last time discrimination in general got an adequate amount of national attention. Today we are bombarded with statistics that support racial discriminations presence in almost every type of intuition, so why is it that we have seen such a lack in effort over the last 40 years? Recently we have seen its increasing presence in the justice system, the U.S department of justice has been under scrutiny the past few years due to racial bias among police and court staff. The U.S. Constitution and federal statutes prohibits racially discriminatory actions by law enforcement agencies but it’s been known for years that African Americans and Latinos are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people. For example in New York City, 80% of traffic stops made were that of black and Latinos, and 85% of those people were searched, compared to a mere 8% of white people stopped. (Wolf, Para 10) There are countless statistics supporting the fact that the …show more content…
Now if this meant public school for a few of their earlier years I would want it to be a place where I felt confident of a few simple things; one being that wherever it is they are at school, equality within the classroom is held paramount. While researching, I found some articles of discrimination in the education system that had me second guessing those few years, especially if I had African American children. A survey held in 2012 by the Education Department 's Office of Civil Rights, highlights longstanding inequities on how schools leave minority students at a disadvantage. The survey revealed that minority students are expelled at triple the rate as there white peers as well as less likely to get access to teachers with experience. (Resmovits, para 7). How can these thing be possible if they were delivering on the promise of an equal education? Such discrimination can impede education for students and puts them at greater risk of dropping out of school. If they say the kids are our future, and they aren’t getting the opportunities they need to succeed and be members of our society, then we might be in