Racism And Racism

Racism is a serious social menace not only in the US, but also the world over, including Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The situation has escalated to a new high, especially in this twenty-first century where technological advancements have necessitated mass and quick sharing of information (Nairn et al. 188). Indeed, social media elements like Facebook, Snap Chat, Twitter, Instagram, and What Sapp has been core in enhancing globalization and its effects, some of which affect and influence racial discrimination both directly and indirectly. As opposed to the views that racism is real and has gained momentum globally, the work of media has on the other hand chosen to report the manifesting cases on the extreme degrees, so that it appears as though the world has come to a halt because of such discriminations. At a critical approach, scholars have noted that media is a channel that creates awareness about racism, and hence could easily escalate the situation if a critical balance on the news and reports aired to the public are not balanced between estimates and practical occurrences (Baker and Rowe 443). While discussing the subject of racism and racial discrimination, it is not only essential to outline how the situation is apparently but also imperative to confirm that race relations are depicted to be really bad in today’s times but the media tries to persuade people to believe an exaggerated side of the situation.

In America, a culture of sustained racism and sexism influences foreign policymakers, which results in colonialism and imperialism, the desecration of nations, and militancy. The authors of the articles, Michael L. Krenn and Laura McEnaney, with differing skill sets, provide evidence of racial and gendered bias in foreign policy. In “The Adaptable Power of Racism,” Krenn expertly examines the history of racism within foreign policy; how racism adapted in the face of religious and scientific challenges, and the overall effects of racist foreign policies.1 McEnaney, in “Gender Analysis and Foreign Relations,” provides a lackluster account of the application of gender analysis to foreign policy, specifically in relation to the policies of the Cold War and Spanish-American War.2 The history of racism and sexism in America provide a blueprint for foreign policymakers, where racist militancy and sexist excuses override basic human rights.

I chose to write about the racism that people in the United States are experiencing. The United States has the world’s largest economy in the world’s gross domestic product and the United States makes up to roughly about 17 to 22 percent of it. United States’ currency is the most widely used currency in international trade, other countries such as British Virgin Islands, Ecuador, Panama, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicaragua and Belize use the US dollar as their own currency. America is a mixed economy meaning that both private interests and state interventionism play a role in it. Christianity is the largest religion which makes up about 70.6% and about 25.4% makeup Evangelical Protestant and about 20.8%

American history includes horrific acts committed against minorities, ones specifically committed by white Americans.. For example, the institution of slavery allowed for the harsh treatment of blacks in America, with no repercussions for whites. However, over time, an abolitionist movement grew, bringing about prominent members, such as, Frederick Douglass. After fleeing slavery in Maryland, he began to speak and write for the abolitionist cause. In his memoir, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he recounts America’s dark history of slavery. The events stated in this work have directly caused our modern-day racial division. The modern-day racial division completely created by white Americans, due to their need to have

, yet there is an increase of Eurocentric values that contradict the African values of life that’s in

Ethnicity and racism or race, whichever you prefer can be both an advantage and a disadvantage depending on which side you’re on. Ethnicity refers to the act of favouring or preferring a person or a group of people because they come from the same ethnic group or tribe such as you. This mostly affects states and institutions in which tribes form a major part of the society and where people really value their tribes. On the other hand race or racism is the act of favouring a person or a group of people because they come from the same race or they have the same skin colour as you. An example is when you go to look for work and the person conducting the interviews is a white and you are Asian or a black American and the person despite all your academic achievements and qualifications picks the white who is less qualified than you at your expense he is being racist, that is racism. The same example can be used to explain what is meant by ethnicity, when the same thing happens and a person from the same ethnic group as the person hiring is chosen over you, when you have better qualifications than them then that is what is meant by ethnicity. (TCO 5)

“The good news about racism” was an article written by Margaret Wente from the Globe and Mail discussing about the societal progress for intolerance against racism in North America. Wente even makes the point that “racist behavior is declining in America and that ““structural” and “systematic” racism” have replaced everyday racism (Wente, 2017). Although Wente makes a generally accurate point that there has been progress in terms of the attitudes towards racist behaviors if compared to today and the 17th century, but crucial elements of history are being disregarded. The effects of colonization cannot be forgotten as it created a society where race takes on such a presence within “institutions and social discourses (Dei, 1996)” within the capitalistic system. Racism provides “power and prejudice (Jones, 2014)” that is imbedded into how society functions that is consciously/unconsciously promoted and sustained, that advantages certain races.

The marijuana industry is unique due to the fact that it has the ability to help people escape the grip of big pharma, however it has recently shown evidence of caring more about profit than the health of its patients. In addition to this, with legalization of the industry taking place across the nation, minorities are finding themselves once again alienated and unable to participate as a result of institutionalized racism. This racism can be regarded as a result of the War on Drugs and the prison industrial complex. Now is the best time to implement changes to the marijuana industry, as it is just beginning. From an analytical Marxist & critical race perspective, it is clear that the marijuana industry is growing dangerously close to becoming just another avaricious industry built on the systematic oppression of minorities. If this issue is left to due course of time, the industry will become just another problem too big to tackle due to its structural complexity.

The concepts of race and racism are among the hardest things to understand in American society. One of the facets of the ongoing debate about race revolves around the question of whether racism preceded slavery, or in broader terms, whether perceptions of racial difference led to discrimination. Proponents of the argument that racism led to slavery as well as of the argument that perceptions of racial difference led to discrimination typically argue that the preconceived notions the colonists held about Blacks were the reason they were able to oppress and enslave generations of people without remorse; opponents argue that slavery and other discriminatory systems arose out of necessity and the prevalence of the systems is what led to racism and discrimination. In examining the explanations for each causal relationship, it becomes increasingly clear that racism preceded slavery and perceptions of racial difference led to discrimination primarily because of historical trends and the evidence and analyses provided by Carl Degler, C. Vann Woodward, Edmund Morgan, W.E.B. du Bois, and Elizabeth Hinton.

Racism is something that has affected minority groups throughout all of our history, and continues to be a problem to this very day.

When you turn on the TV to watch the news, walk down the street, or travel further South in the United States, however subtle or blatant, you can detect racism. Many people chalk it up to shallow racism and ignore it, but the issues are more deeply embedded than they appear. The issue with race in the media, South, or people, in general, is that it's one of the foundations of the United States. Racism is intertwined all throughout U.S. History being passed down from generation to generation, to the point where it's practically in their DNA. This all began when Columbus arrived in the Caribbean and enslaved the indigenous people, bringing them back to England as the queen's slaves. As a result, of Columbus' actions, slavery began to spread throughout England. Europeans paid Africans with guns and other weapons to enslave rival tribe members. Eventually when Europeans migrated to America, slavery in England had begun to die down, however, it was just beginning in America. The European-Americans used the African slaves to build America, then to tend to their crops and fields. This continued for several years until the Civil War began, slaves saw an opportunity for freedom, but then realized that they would never truly be free until they had the same rights as an American citizen. So, when the Civil War ended, the Reconstruction was born. However, from here, it would continue to be a battle for people of color. Some say that though the Reconstruction amendments helped Africans

Given the number of nationalities represented in the United States through what is remembered of immigrants and what is forgotten by descendants, the United States presents itself as a complex society based on individual discrimination in order to find where one fits in. This act of perceiving a stimulus difference is quite natural, it is however when it becomes acquisited with an institutionalized negation does it become a problem to the multitude of people who conflict over a misclassification of ethnophaulisms as racism. This misclassification heightens racial conflict, specifically when it comes to a ‘Hispanic or Latino’ saying “Nigger”.

Racism when looked up in a dictionary is defined as being prejudice, discriminatiating , or having any sort of antagonism directed against someone or a culture of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. For as long as one can go in history racism has always been an occurring issue in the world. Although when it comes to the hatred and racism towards minority cultures that will be an issue that will continue to occur for centuries to come. For as long as one can think of the history on the racism and acts of hatred toward the culture of Native americans has been on of the most popular ones. Who would forget that's what comes to mind on the holiday widely celebrated that we know as Thanksgiving. The way in which the united states has treated our brothers and sisters of the Native American culture has been a disgrace on what America as being their motto. American is known to be “the land of the free and opportunity.” Although, as time goes on the truth reveals itself and we come to the harsh realization that it is all a lie. Which in reality we aren’t this great nation or aren't any better than other countries. In fact we can actually be on of the worse ones. Injustices in the world have caused a lot of pain and suffering to many Indians in America. How we treated and continue to treat the Native Americans is embarrassment to our world and its history. Removing them from their land and breaking treaties which we signed was just morally incorrect.

Let's get one thing crystal clear: black people are not, nor have ever been, treated fairly in the United States. When they were forcibly removed from Africa and enslaved by white Americans, whites degraded them to property status. The degradation endured following the passage of the 13th amendment in 1865, which abolished slavery, as the Jim Crow color line divided America. Although the government had granted blacks equality from a legal standpoint, it quickly became evident that racism was so entrenched in American society that if blacks didn’t directly protest injustice, nothing would change, for “taught the same economics, history, philosophy, literature and religion which have established the present code of morals, the Negro’s mind has been brought under the control of his oppressor” (Woodson 10). Whites were unwavering, for they enjoyed the elevated social status and the plethora of accompanying benefits of whiteness, so they exploited legal, illegal, and extralegal tactics to quell black protests. Nevertheless, blacks remained resilient throughout the years, trudging forward and striving for what United States citizenship guaranteed them. Importantly, though, is the fact that words alone weren't sufficient; without collective and sustained action, nothing changed. Consequently, this traditional focus on the social constructs of whiteness and blackness, rather than on shared human condition, has perpetuated a vicious cycle of racism and bigotry that plagues our

When it comes to police and racism your life depends on your skin color. I say that because the majority of the police force think that they are helping the community and the people in it and because of that their thoughts are without them things would be out of control but they never expected that with them things would already be like that. It's been proven on behalf of police that 90% of blacks are killed by other blacks, while 80% of whites were killed by other whites. So, to police they're not harming anyone they are here to protect any and everyone,but for others they might not feel the same way.