Examples Of Racism In America
Racism in America
Racism is one of the world's major issues today. Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in schools, workforces, and anywhere else social lives occur. There are three different types of racism: explicit, implicit and structural.
Explicit racism is a believing that their own racial group is superior to another ethnicity group. One example of explicit racism is towards the current United States President, Barack Obama. President Obama has over 30 death threats a day. This was said by one of Barack Obama's security guards in November 2012. There have been several attempts to assassinate the president since he has been in office. The discrimination of African Americans has suspended the country's ability to …show more content…
have a black president since 1789 when the first president was elected.
Implicit Racism is broadly defined and refers to an individual’s utilization of unconscious biases when making judgments about people from different racial and ethnic groups. According to a number of observers, implicit racism is an automatic negative reaction to someone of a different race or ethnicity than one’s own. There are still active white supremacists organizations in America such as the Ku Klux Klan. White supremacy is a culture that needs to be eliminated from the United States. The media hides things that Caucasians do, making it seem like Caucasians do nothing wrong. But when an African American may happen to do the same activity, or relatively close as a Caucasian had once did. Than it is blown up across all forms of
Pandos 2 social media and the punishment would be much harsher on the African American than on the Caucasian.
Structural racism is not something that a few people or institutions choose to practice.
Instead it has been a feature of the social, economic and political systems in which we all exist. Although structural racism is conveyed in many of children's shows. For example, the movie The Jungle Book includes monkeys with an African American accent and sing about the desire to be a human, to walk and talk like a human. In Dumbo, there is a scene with black birds, one of which's name is ‘Jim Crow’. There is also a scene in Dumbo of faceless black men that are doing critical labor and are singing about never learning how to read and write. This form of structural racism is all over the place, this exists in the press, on the radio, on the tv, and the internet making it hard for African Americans to feel wanted in America, because it is training the children's brains into thinking that African Americans are not accepted in America. Instead, children’s shows should be teaching them that no matter what race you are it is …show more content…
acceptable. Interracial marriage is another thing that is frowned upon in the United States and is one of the top places that discrimination is present. Just fewer than 200,000 of the 4,000,000 marriages in the last few years were interracial. The percentage of interracial couples had gone up only 18.5 percent since the 1980’s. (Watts. Interracial Marriage) this is a large problem knowing that the black population has grown rapidly in the last 30+ years.
Americans are getting married more to Asians and Hispanics than to African Americans. This also causes problems with the social interaction between blacks and whites.
The interaction with the races has stayed around the same over the last hundred years. Even as America grows, the interaction between races does not. It is shown that when children
Pandos 3 go to kindergarten that they will play with all the children, but the older they get the more they move towards their own race. Children are not born racist; it is how they are raised and if society cannot help the older generation than they will never be able to help the future generations. Inequality in legal situations is another subject that must be settled. More African Americans have been put in jail for false accusation because of their ethnicity. This is also a recurring factor that involves police. Many people have believed that policemen are one of the most racist group of people in America, they also happen to work for the Government. Around 60% of African American shootings in 2014 were done by a white cop that had accused mainly black males of doing illegal things. After time, the black males were proven innocent but it would be too late because the victim would have already been dead. (Towner. Police Reports)
There was a study in 2011 on what types of people would most likely have their cars searched. Out of the 10 cars that they noticed had been stopped 8 of them were black or Hispanic and the other 2 were white. There was also another study that had been going on since 1980. Between 1980 and 2011 there were 114,600 African Americans were put in jail. In the same time period there were 85,400 Caucasians that were put into jail. This is almost a 30,000 person difference.
African Americans are discriminated all the way from police to where they can and can't live. For example, in the twentieth century, discrimination by private real estate agents and rental property owners helped establish and maintain stark patterns of housing and neighborhood inequality. Beginning in the late 1970s, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has monitored trends in racial and ethnic discrimination in both rental and sales markets approximately once each decade through a series of nationwide studies.
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African American homebuyers who contact real estate agents about advertised homes for sale learn about 17 percent fewer available homes than equally qualified whites and are shown 7.7 percent fewer homes. There are some landlords that will refuse to rent or sell housing, refuse to negotiate for housing, make housing unavailable, prove different terms to different people, set different conditions or privileges for sale or rental of a property, deny access to or membership in a facility or service related to the sale or rental of housing, impose different rates and terms on a loan, refuse to make a mortgage loan; and even discriminating in appraising property just because they are African American. The discrimination has gone so far to even convey that black parents are not good parents. Saying that the fathers are most likely to leave the children and the mothers wouldn't take care of them. Recently the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published data on the role that American fathers play in parenting their children. Most of the CDC’s previous research on family life has focused exclusively on mothers. But the latest data finds that the stereotypical gender imbalance in this area is most likely untrue and dads are there just as much when it comes to raising their kids. They have also found that black parents can actually be there more than white parents. On children under 5, 12 percent more of African Americans played with their children more than Caucasians had. Also 10 percent more of African American parents helped their children do homework. Although black fathers are more likely to live separately from their children, many of them remain just as involved in their kids’ lives. It is estimated that 67 percent of black fathers who don’t live with their kids see them at least once a month, compared to 59 percent of white fathers.
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Along with their being discrimination in the law enforcement, in the retail market, and even in their own households there is also discrimination in schools. Racial discrimination in education refers to any harassment of students based on race, color, or national origin. Discrimination can happen at any age from preschool through college and can be caused by teachers, administrators, other staff members, or other students. In an attempt to prevent racial discrimination, the federal government has established
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Under this federal law, any school receiving government funding cannot discriminate against any student based on race, color, or national origin. And even with this act, there is still discrimination. The most common teacher discrimination is related to in-class discipline. Many of these reported cases involve a teacher punishing a particular student because of the student’s minority status. This is very common among African American and Latino students, particularly those in high school. The most common form of racial discrimination in education is harassment by students.
The Office for Civil Rights reports incidents of “racially motivated physical attacks, racial epithets scrawled on school walls and organized hate activity directed at students.” (Frocks. Discrimination In Schools) Incidents by a student on a school campus may not begin an investigation, but repeated offenses or a lack of consequences for offenders when discrimination occurs can lead to an investigation by the Office for Civil Rights. But these are very rare and in most cases are overlooked.
“#Black Lives Matter” is the current movement to stop violence and discrimination against African Americans. #Black Lives Matter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and the dead 17-year old
Trayvon
Pandos 6 was placed on trial for his own murder. This movement is one that should not be continuous into the year 2016, giving proof that racism has been around since the discovery of America in 1776, and is still around. There was a poll done in 2016 by CNN by Marc Lamont Hill. His research concluded that 2 out of 10 blacks and Hispanics felt unfairly treated by the police over the past 30 days. This is virtually the same finding from the early 2000s where black Americans felt equally vulnerable to police misconduct. The poll also showed that 8 in 10 blacks and 2 in 3 Hispanics agree that the criminal justice system favors whites. Even 5 in 10 white Americans acknowledged the racial imbalance of our system. In fact, there was a study called the ‘UCLA Study.’ This showed that black boys are viewed by law enforcement as "older and less innocent" than their white peers. This may lead to circumstances where officers may excuse the behavior of a white teenager as a youthful indiscretion while treating a black youth as an adult criminal. In Conclusion, Explicit, Implicit and Structural racism is still active in America. This is shown from threats against President Obama, and other African Americans. There are also active white supremacist and neo-nazi organizations that still exist in America that should have been eliminated from our culture hundreds of years ago. Also, there is stereotyping in the media including children's shows, moving America backwards instead of forward. Interracial marriage is also a prime subject in the discrimination on African Americans and why racism should have been demolished. The social interaction in races needs to be higher and much more normal in an everyday life. Inequality in legal outcomes and police violence has proven to be a top factor in racial discrimination. Also, schooling and housing by race is just another reason racism should be put to an end. All of these problems are why racism in America needs to be ceased with.
Racism is one of the world's major issues today. Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in schools, workforces, and anywhere else social lives occur. There are three different types of racism: explicit, implicit and structural.
Explicit racism is a believing that their own racial group is superior to another ethnicity group. One example of explicit racism is towards the current United States President, Barack Obama. President Obama has over 30 death threats a day. This was said by one of Barack Obama's security guards in November 2012. There have been several attempts to assassinate the president since he has been in office. The discrimination of African Americans has suspended the country's ability to …show more content…
have a black president since 1789 when the first president was elected.
Implicit Racism is broadly defined and refers to an individual’s utilization of unconscious biases when making judgments about people from different racial and ethnic groups. According to a number of observers, implicit racism is an automatic negative reaction to someone of a different race or ethnicity than one’s own. There are still active white supremacists organizations in America such as the Ku Klux Klan. White supremacy is a culture that needs to be eliminated from the United States. The media hides things that Caucasians do, making it seem like Caucasians do nothing wrong. But when an African American may happen to do the same activity, or relatively close as a Caucasian had once did. Than it is blown up across all forms of
Pandos 2 social media and the punishment would be much harsher on the African American than on the Caucasian.
Structural racism is not something that a few people or institutions choose to practice.
Instead it has been a feature of the social, economic and political systems in which we all exist. Although structural racism is conveyed in many of children's shows. For example, the movie The Jungle Book includes monkeys with an African American accent and sing about the desire to be a human, to walk and talk like a human. In Dumbo, there is a scene with black birds, one of which's name is ‘Jim Crow’. There is also a scene in Dumbo of faceless black men that are doing critical labor and are singing about never learning how to read and write. This form of structural racism is all over the place, this exists in the press, on the radio, on the tv, and the internet making it hard for African Americans to feel wanted in America, because it is training the children's brains into thinking that African Americans are not accepted in America. Instead, children’s shows should be teaching them that no matter what race you are it is …show more content…
acceptable. Interracial marriage is another thing that is frowned upon in the United States and is one of the top places that discrimination is present. Just fewer than 200,000 of the 4,000,000 marriages in the last few years were interracial. The percentage of interracial couples had gone up only 18.5 percent since the 1980’s. (Watts. Interracial Marriage) this is a large problem knowing that the black population has grown rapidly in the last 30+ years.
Americans are getting married more to Asians and Hispanics than to African Americans. This also causes problems with the social interaction between blacks and whites.
The interaction with the races has stayed around the same over the last hundred years. Even as America grows, the interaction between races does not. It is shown that when children
Pandos 3 go to kindergarten that they will play with all the children, but the older they get the more they move towards their own race. Children are not born racist; it is how they are raised and if society cannot help the older generation than they will never be able to help the future generations. Inequality in legal situations is another subject that must be settled. More African Americans have been put in jail for false accusation because of their ethnicity. This is also a recurring factor that involves police. Many people have believed that policemen are one of the most racist group of people in America, they also happen to work for the Government. Around 60% of African American shootings in 2014 were done by a white cop that had accused mainly black males of doing illegal things. After time, the black males were proven innocent but it would be too late because the victim would have already been dead. (Towner. Police Reports)
There was a study in 2011 on what types of people would most likely have their cars searched. Out of the 10 cars that they noticed had been stopped 8 of them were black or Hispanic and the other 2 were white. There was also another study that had been going on since 1980. Between 1980 and 2011 there were 114,600 African Americans were put in jail. In the same time period there were 85,400 Caucasians that were put into jail. This is almost a 30,000 person difference.
African Americans are discriminated all the way from police to where they can and can't live. For example, in the twentieth century, discrimination by private real estate agents and rental property owners helped establish and maintain stark patterns of housing and neighborhood inequality. Beginning in the late 1970s, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has monitored trends in racial and ethnic discrimination in both rental and sales markets approximately once each decade through a series of nationwide studies.
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African American homebuyers who contact real estate agents about advertised homes for sale learn about 17 percent fewer available homes than equally qualified whites and are shown 7.7 percent fewer homes. There are some landlords that will refuse to rent or sell housing, refuse to negotiate for housing, make housing unavailable, prove different terms to different people, set different conditions or privileges for sale or rental of a property, deny access to or membership in a facility or service related to the sale or rental of housing, impose different rates and terms on a loan, refuse to make a mortgage loan; and even discriminating in appraising property just because they are African American. The discrimination has gone so far to even convey that black parents are not good parents. Saying that the fathers are most likely to leave the children and the mothers wouldn't take care of them. Recently the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published data on the role that American fathers play in parenting their children. Most of the CDC’s previous research on family life has focused exclusively on mothers. But the latest data finds that the stereotypical gender imbalance in this area is most likely untrue and dads are there just as much when it comes to raising their kids. They have also found that black parents can actually be there more than white parents. On children under 5, 12 percent more of African Americans played with their children more than Caucasians had. Also 10 percent more of African American parents helped their children do homework. Although black fathers are more likely to live separately from their children, many of them remain just as involved in their kids’ lives. It is estimated that 67 percent of black fathers who don’t live with their kids see them at least once a month, compared to 59 percent of white fathers.
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Along with their being discrimination in the law enforcement, in the retail market, and even in their own households there is also discrimination in schools. Racial discrimination in education refers to any harassment of students based on race, color, or national origin. Discrimination can happen at any age from preschool through college and can be caused by teachers, administrators, other staff members, or other students. In an attempt to prevent racial discrimination, the federal government has established
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Under this federal law, any school receiving government funding cannot discriminate against any student based on race, color, or national origin. And even with this act, there is still discrimination. The most common teacher discrimination is related to in-class discipline. Many of these reported cases involve a teacher punishing a particular student because of the student’s minority status. This is very common among African American and Latino students, particularly those in high school. The most common form of racial discrimination in education is harassment by students.
The Office for Civil Rights reports incidents of “racially motivated physical attacks, racial epithets scrawled on school walls and organized hate activity directed at students.” (Frocks. Discrimination In Schools) Incidents by a student on a school campus may not begin an investigation, but repeated offenses or a lack of consequences for offenders when discrimination occurs can lead to an investigation by the Office for Civil Rights. But these are very rare and in most cases are overlooked.
“#Black Lives Matter” is the current movement to stop violence and discrimination against African Americans. #Black Lives Matter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and the dead 17-year old
Trayvon
Pandos 6 was placed on trial for his own murder. This movement is one that should not be continuous into the year 2016, giving proof that racism has been around since the discovery of America in 1776, and is still around. There was a poll done in 2016 by CNN by Marc Lamont Hill. His research concluded that 2 out of 10 blacks and Hispanics felt unfairly treated by the police over the past 30 days. This is virtually the same finding from the early 2000s where black Americans felt equally vulnerable to police misconduct. The poll also showed that 8 in 10 blacks and 2 in 3 Hispanics agree that the criminal justice system favors whites. Even 5 in 10 white Americans acknowledged the racial imbalance of our system. In fact, there was a study called the ‘UCLA Study.’ This showed that black boys are viewed by law enforcement as "older and less innocent" than their white peers. This may lead to circumstances where officers may excuse the behavior of a white teenager as a youthful indiscretion while treating a black youth as an adult criminal. In Conclusion, Explicit, Implicit and Structural racism is still active in America. This is shown from threats against President Obama, and other African Americans. There are also active white supremacist and neo-nazi organizations that still exist in America that should have been eliminated from our culture hundreds of years ago. Also, there is stereotyping in the media including children's shows, moving America backwards instead of forward. Interracial marriage is also a prime subject in the discrimination on African Americans and why racism should have been demolished. The social interaction in races needs to be higher and much more normal in an everyday life. Inequality in legal outcomes and police violence has proven to be a top factor in racial discrimination. Also, schooling and housing by race is just another reason racism should be put to an end. All of these problems are why racism in America needs to be ceased with.