Persuasive Essay On Positive Discrimination

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“Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don’t like as those we do”, said Trevor Phillips, a British writer, broadcaster and former politician. Since the day of human civilization and human rights are found. No one can argue against the idea that God created us equal, but this idea have been well understood and known after the appearance of many associations that fight for human rights as The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that showed up in 1948. Human rights are those rights that every person, without exceptions, is born with. They are the most important human basic needs because no one can live a decent appropriate life without having those rights as a human. In fact, these rights …show more content…

Although, discrimination can be practiced in a negative way. Sometimes it is necessary to discriminate to achieve justice. For example, the positive discrimination that occur at work places. When someone is more qualified than the rest of his team workers, for sure it is his right to get more rewards. Or also when a shop gives discounts to customers that visits the shop continuously. While negative discrimination is often linked with bullying and harassment like when someone acts in a way or does something on purpose intending to bother someone else. It’s actually against the law to be discriminated against in a lot of areas in public life including in …show more content…

They were kidnapped from their homes in various part of America. A number of them; men, women, and children were stripped of their names and identities, forced to change their religion, beaten, abused, and threatened all of the times. Moreover, black people used to face a lot of abuses in social places. For example, restaurants’ owners used to hang on the outside gate of the place a cardboard written on it many conditions in order for someone to enter the place. First of all, the entry of foods and beverages was abandoned. Second, smoking wasn’t allowed. Also, no dogs were allowed to enter. Unfortunately black people too! In addition, black kids weren’t allowed to enter schools where white kids attend. Instead, they used to go to a low-level school special for black people. Parents didn’t allow their children to have black friends to play with. Moreover, black people were paid less than their white counter parts, they were treated in a harsh way, and had to work harder than everyone else, often given the more “dirty work”. Black people wanted to change the way they were treated, but it was very difficult for them to do this as a result of the Jim Crow Laws, these were a number of laws in America enforced between 1876 & 1965 that provided a legal basis for segregating and discriminating against African-American, or as said black

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