Racial Inequality : Not Much Has Changed

The issue of racial disproportion in the United States has been an ongoing topic in history since slavery. As Americans we are affected by racial injustices everyday. One may not realize how their own racial identity plays a part in their everyday life experiences. The dynamics of racial oppression and privilege with the United States is incredibly complex ranging from the time of establishment to present day. The present day racial inequality within the criminal justice system and incarceration rates has peaked in the United States over the last 30 years. According to the NAACP the number of incarcerated individual has quadruples from roughly 500.00 to 2.3 million people. In 2008 African American and Hispanics comprised of 58% of the

Historically, African Americans have endured extended periods of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other forms of discrimination for almost four centuries. These events, coupled with legal racist practices, have led to dire consequences within the socioeconomic landscape for African Americans (Watts, 2003).

The African-American community has endured a notable amount of troublesome tribulations, primarily in cultural identity. The wide array of challenges that minorities undergo when classifying a specific race is illogical, and rather insane. The struggle, hassle, and strain placed on minorities for embracing their identity will continuously be stereotyped or judged by a non-oppressed individual, or better yet our modern society. The ongoing list of imperfections a minority is labeled with when classifying their race, ensures being a minority is an undesirable feature or demographic. African-Americans constantly receives disapproval and hatred, along with a long record of wrong-doings that have been done to people of color. Generally, the outward appearance of an individual of color could possibly suffer from racial profiling, mass incarceration, brutality, police brutality, and exploitation inequalities. The negative suppositions, hypotheses, and assumptions that African-American people group receive, is essentially outstanding as prejudice.

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Black Americans have a history rooted in the struggle for equality and recognition as members of the American society. Over time, since the creation of the Constitution, blacks have continued to search for their role in America and have gained some formal standards for the black race. Although at the framing of the Constitution, blacks were not given the regard as citizens or even whole people, time progressed and gave way to opportunities to acquire legal aid in the crusade for racial equality. With the ability to utilize the court system, its formalities, and ultimately its power to enact national laws, blacks were able to win civil rights litigations, thus making advancements as a race.

History has shaped the unequal treatment of African Americans by today’s society. Prudence Carter, Russell Skiba, Mariella Arredondo, and Mica Pollock’s (2014) declare history has set the foundation for the ideology race. Most problems of racial stereotypes began more than 100 years ago, but still plague minorities to this day. For example, in the 19TH century black men slaves that ran away were considered dangerous criminals and this lead to legislations policies to kill a runaway, planting the seed of the dangerous black man. Many biological and social anthropologists argue race is a cultural construct. We can’t define acts of injustice by examining race as independent of biological/genetic variations. Scholars discovered race didn’t exist in the 17TH century but race originated as a folk idea-it was a social invention, not a product of science. Stereotype and many others from history has become entrenched in the US.

Discrimination is a problem in our world today, but a majority of our population has taken it and distorted it to be a bigger problem than it really is. Recently in the United States, there has been a lot of attention from the public eye, that has been turned to this issue. With the recent election of Donald Trump to be the President-elect of this country, a lot of people are voicing their opinions about how they believe he is a racist, and how the whole country will be worse than it was before when it comes to discrimination. Racism and discrimination toward African-Americans specifically has recently gotten a lot of attention from the media as well. The formation of the group “Black Lives Matter,” reignited the historic controversy in America about African-Americans and the reality of their situations.

Though you do have very significant points and many supporting ideas about the article in your post, I disagree with how you think that America does not spend enough time talking about racial inequality. We do spend a lot of time complaining about social issues in this country; however, a lot of people complain rather than digging deeper to see why the problems exist. For example, for a period of about five months, I remember hearing news about racial inequality every single day, and every single time I turned the television on the news channel. News anchors would describe events consisting of racism and detail the protests occurring nationwide. These protestors wanted change, how did they want the change to happen? With this, we see

Racial inequality is still a problem in America, but there are ways to fight against it.

The 2005 film Guess Who illustrates how racial inequality is present within society, and how race is used by our society to create and manufacture social categories. This film is about a black female named Theresa and a white man named Simon that fight against the racial inequality present within their society and choose to be together. Stereotypes, prejudice, ethnic chauvinism, and racism are prevalent concepts throughout the movie. Most of these concepts are displayed by the people that Theresa and Simon surround themselves with, but throughout the movie the audience starts to see that Theresa and Simon gradually start to exemplify these racist concepts in their arguments and conversations. They start to believe that they are unequal and different because of their skin, and this shows the power that society has over its members. Specifically, how racial inequality is so deeply rooted in our society that we force the view that race is a form of social stratification on people. This is done through stereotypical comments and irrelevant cultural differences that are reinforced through selective perception. The concept of racial inequality is extremely prevalent throughout this film and many sociological theories can be applied to shed light on this specific social problem

A lot has happened within the category of race relations within America’s past. Since the existence of minorities in America, they have been viewed as lesser in comparison to their white counterparts. Therefore they are valued less as a whole on an economic scale dictating the lives that they were systematically intended to live for decades to come. Consequently because of this systemic setup, known as racial inequality, it has become almost impossible for minorities to close the socioeconomic gap between them and their White counterparts. According to US Legal racial inequality can be defined as the discrimination based on race in opportunity for socioeconomic advancement or access to goods and services. The following sources have been gathered to help make the main point of my topic clear, racial inequality in the US can be solved. Therefore these sources will supply my audience with statistics and formal reason that make a strong argument. The sources suit the topic well due the range of coverage they have within the topic. They allow for the discussion of the theoretical causes for racial inequality, how race relations focus on minority problems (racial disadvantages) while excluding Whites as apart of the racial system (racial advantages/white privilege), the impact of the four central frames of colorblind racism, the acknowledgement that racial equality is decreasing between America’s largest racial ethnic groups, and a theoretical approach to solving racial

The classification and demoralization of races has been the cause of serious tension for centuries. Some Americans choose to stay ignorant to the injustice occurring around them while others take those issues and blow them way out of proportion. In a world that will always classify people by their race, a common ground needs to be found between the two extremes so that Americans may be able to live together comfortably. Throughout American history many minority groups have felt the wrath and harshness of racism but one group has dealt with the longest lasting and most severe form- the African Americans. Racism in past and present America has aided in the creation of a culture that is filled with

Throughout the history of America, there has been constant problems with the quest for racial equality. In three different time periods; early views on race, civil rights movement, and the fight for equality in America, how race is deceived has been altered in a variety of ways. To this day society in America has not fully accessed complete racial equality, but have furthered the advance to achieve it in creating more laws that design equality among everyone.

We would think that anything is possible right here right now in the 21 century, but little did we know racial inequality will always be in the way. Racial inequality is a talking point that has been passed down from generations to generations.Whether we the minorities like it or not our actions reflect how we will be approached on our daily basis. Our skin color will speak louder than the words we actually have to say. However, many who have never experience our struggles with discrimination will wrongfully judge our actions against this issue. We all have differents ways in tackling this issue whether it be with violence or peace. Many however become oblivious when it comes to racial inequality. They don’t intend to this because they don't care but simply because they are trying to protect themselves or their families. Hatred and anger become a big part when it comes to dealing with racial inequality. Which leads to violence and vandalism, in which it only gives the oppressors a reason to oppress. Now many think that violence isn't the way to seek change but however the violence becomes a loud voice that rings in the oppressor’s ear so that change could occur. Some deal with racial inequality in a nonviolent way. How theses wrongfully individuals chose to deal with racial inequality should not be the question the real question should be why is racial inequality still acceptable in our society.

Racial Inequality is when someone is disparity in an opportunity and treatment that occurs as a result of their race. I choose to write about this topic because it has influenced me throughout my life and is still recurring in today’s society. I wanted to explore this topic because many people isn’t aware of the racial inequality that is still going on in today’s society. We tend to learn about the history instead of problems that are going on today. In addition me and my family has experienced racial inequality from my grandmother being one of the first African American students to attend an all-white school to being a resident assistant and being called ghetto for doing my job.