Racial Discrimination

I was watching the news, when the footage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster came on. The news reporters were showing a black man walking in flooded waters near a market with a bag full of food and labeled him a “thief”. Social media in the United States has portrayed people of different racial backgrounds differently and unequally in recent years. In the essays “Theories and Constructs of Race” and “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?” the authors discuss in both essays about issues with racial equality in our world today. Authors Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe discuss in the first essay racial schemes are created through prejudices and the telling and retelling of stories. While, authors Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado discuss in their essay about the issue of “colorblindness” in social media. Holtzman is a professor of communications and journalism at Webster University, while Sharpe is a professor at Webster as well. Similarly, Harris and Carbado are professors at UCLA’s School of Law and have addressed widely on race, gender, civil rights and constitutional issues. Both essays do a good job at explaining their ideas and supporting them with evidence of racial discrimination in our world today. The authors from both essays organize their ideas and summarize them, which helps understand the main idea of racism, discrimination and racial inequalities in today’s society.

The government's first action to battle racial discrimination was the enforcement act of 1870, this act banned racial discrimination in voter registration. It also established consequences for those who interfered with one's right to vote. The government's second attempt to end discrimination was the enforcement act of 1871 which allowed federal oversight at elections if any citizen felt it was necessary. This act came with harsher punishments. The third and final attempt to end discrimination was the Ku Klux Klan act. This made any state official accountable in federal courts for stripping anybody of their civil right or protection of the law.  The KKK act also made several of their ploys federal offenses. This resulted on several hundred

The fight against racial discrimination in the America has continued, it may be said that the struggle has become particularly difficult in the 21st century. The laws and policies claim that only few forms of discriminations remain, in reality, racial discrimination is still existent in the US, it has continued to hinder the enjoyment of fundamental human rights by many individuals who belong to the minor racial and ethnic groups (Alexander, 2013). According to studies, racism and racial discrimination have deeply and lastingly influenced

Abstract- Racial discrimination happens all the time and most of us are unaware of it. The most common place for this to happen is in the workplace. Now people can be discriminated against because of their race, religion, or any other numerous things. Also, discrimination can occur during the job interview or even after you got the job. This paper will shoe the effects of racial discrimination and how it can be prevented. In addition there are some very important laws that deal specifically with discrimination, like the NAACP or Affirmative Action. These both will be discussed.

Everybody has watched on the breaking news how has someone gotten killed for racial discrimination, but have you ever been aware of the connotation of this problem? Nowadays racial discrimination is not a social problem from the past and everyone can be a victim. This controversial issue still ingrained in our inherited misconceived perceptions, and it has an increasing connotation on people lives and society. That being said, in order to arise awareness about racial discrimination, we must acknowledge its impact on individuals, how to confront it and the values of cultural diversity.

Racial bias is still a very active issue in society today. This paper explores the understanding of racial bias in business hiring. This is critical because racial bias continually uniforms businesses in hiring decisions. The prevalence of racial bias in business hiring, potential interventions, and explanations of why this occurs will be explored. How prevalent is racial bias in business hiring today and how can it be mediated?

Yes, this scenario is a reportable injury. It is a reportable injury because Karen Kite was outside of her jobsite when she slipped and fell.

Since President Harry S.Truman administration, the U.S. government has committed to black rights legislation until President Johnson, discrimination has been abolished legally. In today’s America, although legal discrimination and segregation have been abolished, institutionalized discrimination is still exists. What is discrimination? “Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual or group based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group of category, ‘in a way that is worse than the way people are usually treated.’ ” () Even to this day most black people because of skin have been deprived same rights

Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character,” (“Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes”). In perhaps, one of the most famous speeches of humanity, Martin Luther King, Jr’s. “I Have A Dream” speech had one main point; that all deserve to be equal. Unfortunately, King’s dream hasn’t been reached yet, and African-Americans are still discriminated against and judged unfairly. According to the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, racial discrimination is the act of treating someone differently or unfairly because of race (“Race/Color Discrimination”). Martin Luther King Jr. believed that all people should be treated the same regardless of ethnicity. Therefore, American society should care about racial discrimination because the rate of African-Americans in jail is much higher than whites, innocent African-Americans have been killed by police without reason, and African-Americans are often profiled by the police.

For centuries a dilemma that has affected the whole world has been the practices such as discrimination and prejudice. To begin with what is discrimination in the first place? The exact definition would be fair treatment of a person, racial group, and minority. Millions of American daily face a certain type of discrimination and whether or not it may be a surprise to many a roughly 45 percent of American Muslims are being discriminated and or threaten due to its religion preference. The amount of American Muslims being afraid to freely express their religion is becoming to increase daily due to this discrimination. Take for example Abdullah Antepeli a professor from Duke University who recently wrote an article explaining how he was stopped

Nowadays, we can still feel the existence of racial discrimination. As we all know, Michael Jackson might be the world’s most famous singer who was born in an African-American family with inborn skin black. Nobody knows why he changed his skin color from black to white. America is a diversity country, which was built in African-American, Latinos, Asian-American and other minority groups have been discriminated in many fields, however, these different race always troubled by the racial discrimination. For example, why black people can not get the better education, is that just because of the problem of poverty? The racial discrimination is still happening, it is hard to overcome the problem, but we can put an end to this situation, to decrease the number of the times it happens.

The framers that wrote the Declaration of Independence intended for this country to be founded on the rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. To an extent, this has been true, but our country still has a long way to go. Unless American society chooses to change their mindset and their way of thinking, then this country will never advance and there will continue to be racial discrimination in every aspect of our daily lives.

In order to end racial discrimination, we must break down the causes of this abiding issue.In our faltering efforts to deal with descrimination in America, an abundent amount of time is focused on responding to symptoms rather than the root causes. This may explain why history is continuing to repeat itself. We must thoroughly understand why the American people feel the need to discriminate against people of color. Three major root causes that protrude are mass media and pop culture, lack of awareness and, political insinuation.

Do Americans feel like there is still racial discrimination in today's everyday life? Racial discrimination is treating someone differently because of the color of his or her skin. Racial discrimination has been around for a long time. There are laws that are supposed to protect non whites from being racially discriminated against but these laws are not applied to everyone equally. There are a lot of different types of discrimination such as gender and age but the main type is racial. Racial discrimination still exist in America based on discrimination at work, police brutality, and arrest rates.

Whether you believe it or not, racial discrimination is not a controversial matter of the past and has a profound impact on society. Nowadays we still inherit unconsciously misconceptions and prejudices that happen to be unnoticed in our day by day. Consequently, in order to raise awareness upon the connotation of this matter, we must educate people on behalf of assertiveness and comprehension. Therefore, it is remarkably important to acknowledge: the negative impact of racial discrimination on the individual and society, the necessity of derogating misconceptions and the values of cultural diversity.