Systemic Racism Essay
"What Is Systemic Racism?" Systemic racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society: the wealth gap, employment, housing discrimination, government surveillance, incarceration, drug arrests, immigration arrests, and infant mortality. Institutional racism or systemic racism describes forms of racism that are in some way structured into political and social institutions. It happens when organizations, institutions or governments discriminate, either deliberately or indirectly, against certain groups of people to limit their rights. Institutional racism happens when social institutions, such as, schools, banks, and courts of law, have a pattern of giving negative treatment to a group of people based on their race. There are also
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The concern is that in these uncertain times, Hispanic, Latino and Mexican-American families do not become the object of discrimination when we should all pull together to help each other in times of need. While African-Americans in this country have for many decades, always suffered the most unemployment, Hispanics and Latinos are not far behind. And while African-Americans can now look to President Obama as an inspiration to what a person can do of any race, Hispanics, Latinos and Mexican-Americans as well as other minorities, still suffer from discrimination in the workplace and in daily life. I would like to point out the numbers of different racial groups in government and business--8 percent Black: a total of 43 people, 6 percent Latino: a total of 32 people, 5.6 percent Asian: a total of 30 people, 18.9 percent women: a total of 101 people.
Instead of becoming a society where the rich cultures of Hispanics and Latinos are shared with other cultures in America, too much of the country remains segregated where Hispanics, Latinos and Mexican-Americans either choose to live or can only afford to live where the majority of their citizens are concentrated in parts of cities away from where Caucasians, African-Americans or other minorities live. There are many causes of discrimination, all of which are crazy, but the less interaction different cultures have, the more likely it is there will be discrimination by those who do not relate to each
The concern is that in these uncertain times, Hispanic, Latino and Mexican-American families do not become the object of discrimination when we should all pull together to help each other in times of need. While African-Americans in this country have for many decades, always suffered the most unemployment, Hispanics and Latinos are not far behind. And while African-Americans can now look to President Obama as an inspiration to what a person can do of any race, Hispanics, Latinos and Mexican-Americans as well as other minorities, still suffer from discrimination in the workplace and in daily life. I would like to point out the numbers of different racial groups in government and business--8 percent Black: a total of 43 people, 6 percent Latino: a total of 32 people, 5.6 percent Asian: a total of 30 people, 18.9 percent women: a total of 101 people.
Instead of becoming a society where the rich cultures of Hispanics and Latinos are shared with other cultures in America, too much of the country remains segregated where Hispanics, Latinos and Mexican-Americans either choose to live or can only afford to live where the majority of their citizens are concentrated in parts of cities away from where Caucasians, African-Americans or other minorities live. There are many causes of discrimination, all of which are crazy, but the less interaction different cultures have, the more likely it is there will be discrimination by those who do not relate to each