Examples Of Racism In America Today

In today's world, people are valued by the color of their skin and are categorized based on the amount of money one posses in their savings account. But in America today a very generalized group of Americans are being hunted everyday with inequality in workforce, American society, judicial system, education and etc. Racial Minorities are encountered in a very poorly manner, arguably minorities blame “white supremacy and white privilege” being the reason why a chain of black lives have been lost with “police brutality” . People in the United states are labeled by the exterior and often forgiveful in the reality of people being the same in the interior. Despite the rough patches America has faced, America will never be united if we don't
leave the bigoted mindset and the segregation we do within our races. Many may argue that the famous quote “Make America great again “ that is being shoved in our throats by political figures today is inaccurate due to our malicious history.
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King gave a famous speech to a crowd of over a quarter million people (History: “Kings Speak to March on Washington”). As of today, Martin Luther king speech is simply just words spoken and left in the air. It was a dream never brought to life fully, because even after many years we still live in America where many people agree is inequal. According to the Washington Post statistically 61 percent of Hispanics say “there is a lot of discrimination against blacks” (Berman) and 71 percent say the same of themselves . These statics are a sense of reminder that our personal experiences have a huge effect on our perspective and our determination to confront discrimination in this country but wistfully very few of us grasp how inequality is happening all around us on a daily bases because some of us don't have the same kind of mirror, very few of us sit and have a glimpse into the daily lives of people who are not like us because our ego and the rapid lifestyle we live in makes our humankind self centered . Not only our middle class Americans face discomfort in this society but also well known women around the world such as the people magazine's 2014 most beautiful women, Lupita Nyong’o has felt uncomfortable around whites. She recently described a scene where she holds close to heart, the remembrance of feeling grisly when out on tv. Her surroundings was simply pale light skins. She felt awful (Uzogara). Most importantly these statistics and opinions of the majority of Americans should be an eye opener, a gate to a solution and or process to end this debate. The simple fact that many Americans see “white supremacy and white privilege” in existence in America should be a big concern to our citizens and our country's leaders as a whole.
However, in like any other debate there's two sides, the other percentage, mostly being conservative republicans especially their parties women. “Women who take on traditional gender roles make the movement more accessible to outsiders by making racist women and families seem normal. Women who take traditional roles are often look to outsiders as a normal recist women with a normal family. As of today’s recent years, there has be a trend for womens to take the role of more nontraditional ways in leadership to carry out violence planned acts. This action is taken in place due to the fact that women are less likely to be suspected. (Kreitler). This group argues that America has succeeded and put behind the racial inequality. Their belief evolves in the concept of America being an effectively equivalent country in this generation. These group of individuals believe that black people and other minorities are too sensitive and often trying to play the victim role, which is quite bias because in America's work industry according to Pager, Devah, and Hana Shepherd of the “The Sociology of Discrimination, African Americans are twice as likely to be unemployed as whites” (Pager, Devah, and Shepherd). A long line of research has examined the degree to which discrimination plays a role in shaping contemporary labor market disparities. However, continuously many of these believers have a mind set where for instance, “Cops can’t be wrong when it comes to African Americans because blacks are statistically more violent and frequently related to crime even if a cop may have persue awry .” (Benjamin Dixon Show) “But what these individuals don't have knowledge of is that black people make up roughly 13% of the United States population, and white people make up 64%. Black people make up 40% of the prison population, and white people 39%. Therefore, even though there are roughly five times as many white people as black people in this country, blacks and whites are incarcerated in equal numbers. But the fact that black people are incarcerated five times as frequently as white people does not mean black people commit five times as many crimes (Farbota)”. There point of view is more of a “Can not black people be more respectful to the police and do whatever the police ask others too?” Ok that is a valid point, but what we as an American society forget is that police are not above the law infact they are here to protect us the people. We as citizens have rights and are able to stand up for ourselves to the police in situations that many African Americans have faced with severe consequences, for instance if the cops are trying to force people out of one’s home because they do not look like they live there or they are “suspicious looking.” “Should people just let the police interrogate them and go in their house without a warrant just because they believe one’s may be a threat due to the color of it’s skin?” (Benjamin Dixon Show). Do the American constitutional rights don't apply to ones as a minority? The answer to that question is no, police can not do that, this is the beauty of America people have freedom and rights that applies to everyone who lives here. The remembrance, a police would have to have a warrant to enter ones house even if they say so. Those same people are the individuals that justify all the police brutality happening in America, they're the same people that tend to divide us and minimize our country's minorities social injustices. Those are the same people that say that is not ok to get angry when injustices occur because if people do than it's malconduct making it acceptable to get shot by the police. In America today the only way to be perceived as a racist is if poeple use the word “nigger” or if they literally say “ I hate Mexicans, blacks etc”.
Racism is true only if confronted by words and is justified if people start your sentence with “I'm not racist but ..” Americans forget that there's racism in actions as well. Although, it seems to be that only the people that live in this country have been blindfolded and unaware of the inequality happening today. But many foreigners and tourist that come to America actually notice the different treatment between races for example German man Spenkuch said “But when I came to the United States, it just jumped into my face. It’s very striking, and not just in job markets—there are racial differences in health, in life expectancy, in education. No matter where people look, race is a really important predictor of how well people do in life.” We all have to leave the mindset where we think “racism isn’t in how people perceive one's without any knowledge of who people are or racism is not in how they approach one's, how they first speak to one's as though your presence requires justification or a just because a person speaks down to you as if you are inferior to them doesn’t mean your are the victim of racism.” ( Benjamin Dixon
Show)
However the Black lives matter movement is bringing many African Americans murder cases to life and managing the whole world ask themselves if those lives that were taken away by the police were justiciable.
The Black Lives Matter movement has brought to live questions that seem to be pretty fair for example do we ever sit and think why George Zimmerman felt he had the right to follow around specifically a black teen who was wearing a hoodie and holding an Arizona tea. The media and everyone else just have their minds wrapped around the fact the teen fought back but wouldn't we all ? Think about it for a minute wouldn't you have reacted the same way if you were being confronted and accused of something you didn't do? Why do we all believe Trayvon had no right to stand his own ground and stand up to what he believed was right? It’s human nature to get angry if you are being confronted like a criminal, it is common sense to get fired up if someone accuses you of a crime you didn't commit. But wait it’s not racism because, according to statistics, he was probably committing a crime anyways right ? We can't forget about Tamir Rice who got shot because he was playing with a toy gun that had the orange safety off. Did the police really had the right to take a kids life away because he wasn't suppose to be playing with a gun that looked realistic? Is it justifiable to just say it was an accident? Did we forget this kid has a family who now don't have son and a brother, my question
is where's the justice for him? Let me remind you these two kids were 5 and 17 years old. There is a problem America we have to wake up and ask ourselves why is there always a white male police officer who kills innocent lives geting still paid after being asked to leave the force after the crime they committed , to be more clear, why is someone who suppose to be upholding the law is instead breaking it in our country we proudly argue is the very best. Wake up America our people are not being treated fair, our people are suffering.The Benjamin Dixon show explained it best , “Racism inequality in America is like a home with a strong stink. Despite it being obvious to people on the outside, people living in it cannot smell their own stink because they are surrounded by it all the time. And as painful as it may be, it takes someone else pointing it out for them to realize it is even there. Or, it requires them leaving the subjectivity of their home to see that the rest of the world doesn’t stink like that.” Works Cited
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