Racial Disparities
Racial disparities the US is clearly seen in many areas like education, healthcare, income, justice achievement, and many others. After analyzing diverse types of racial disparities, I saw that some causes of racial disparity are the same. For example, poverty is affecting people in every stage. If you are poor you cannot have access to good education, proper health quality, fair justice and so on. Another cause is unconscious bias, where people are acting racial unconsciously because this is what they think is normal, acceptable. Numerous statistics show how people act like racist one toward another. I also have seen many stereotypes regardless African-American people, and how those stereotypes influence their life. For instance, black convicts
will stay longer in prison versus a white convict for the same felony.
After completing the chart, it was clear that it is difficult to come up with both individual and societal actions. Most of the articles provide statistics, facts, and information about racial disparities, but almost none of them come with real solutions. Some of the articles did provide some individual actions, such as people must help each other, create a good relationship with others, donate money. For societal action in many articles was mention equity and opportunities for all, diversity, government action, and so on. What is was confusing that we know and we heard many times this solution, but unfortunately I did not hear how this solution can help, or be implemented in a real-life situation. I also did not find in any of this article a call to action.
Of course, individual and societal action are connected, and both cannot stand alone. It is good when an individual act, and realize the problem that he must change if he wants a change. But it is most important that after the individual action, we can address the problem at the societal level. It will be more effective and productive. From my point of view, I see that we might need that every individual to take action and make a change about racial disparities, but for a better effectiveness is required societal actions.
will stay longer in prison versus a white convict for the same felony.
After completing the chart, it was clear that it is difficult to come up with both individual and societal actions. Most of the articles provide statistics, facts, and information about racial disparities, but almost none of them come with real solutions. Some of the articles did provide some individual actions, such as people must help each other, create a good relationship with others, donate money. For societal action in many articles was mention equity and opportunities for all, diversity, government action, and so on. What is was confusing that we know and we heard many times this solution, but unfortunately I did not hear how this solution can help, or be implemented in a real-life situation. I also did not find in any of this article a call to action.
Of course, individual and societal action are connected, and both cannot stand alone. It is good when an individual act, and realize the problem that he must change if he wants a change. But it is most important that after the individual action, we can address the problem at the societal level. It will be more effective and productive. From my point of view, I see that we might need that every individual to take action and make a change about racial disparities, but for a better effectiveness is required societal actions.