class discrimination

Isaac Cobbinah

Class Discrimination

Racial discrimination is a type of issue most people want to avoid. African Americans and many minorities faced racial discrimination in the past because of the color of their skin or their origin. Now, racial discrimination has sort of evolved in way that it has become class discrimination, the lower class including African Americans and other minorities still face discrimination due to their social status, family income or the language they speak at home. Some of them still receive help in issues like education, employment and healthcare. All of this has caused the minorities to be lower in the social class. Racial discrimination has had a set back on the probable accomplishments of African Americans and minorities during the past, and this has made it hard for minorities to move up the social class. Minorities not able to close the achievement gap between themselves and the whites feel that the help they receive now is inferior or unequal to the whites. Many people believe that the lack in help and opportunity that the lower class and the minorities get contributes to the problem they have because they are unable to improve their education or get better employment to support themselves and their families. Furthermore, the lower class consists of mostly minorities, and discrimination is still affecting them. Education is one of the most important things in this country that everybody needs to have in order to success. Many people also believe that there is an achievement gap between minorities and white because of the inferior education that minority students receive. There isn’t enough done on this issue to help the minority students success.
After Brown versus Board of Education, schools began to be integrated but though it was a positive step towards change it wasn’t yet perfect. “Segregated schools were and are,