Essay On Equality In America

It seems racism still exist in America towards African Americans and without a quality education and economic inclusion the division between whites and blacks will continue to grow. As we all know the idea of racism has been around as long as African Americans have been in America. With the Columbian exchange, the need for tobacco, and a demand in cotton the brining of Africans to American began the beginning of a long battle for equality.

After the Civil War, African slaves were granted freedoms, but not equality. This began the Jim Crow laws, separate but equal, state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. From there the civil rights movements emerged and African Americans began to fight for the equality they deserved, which brings us to the present. In today’s post-modern era it seems blacks

have to fight just as hard for equality as we did almost 50 years ago. At one point, it seemed as if America was getting better and now we’ve backtracked.
In finding a solution for equality we must first look at the entire economic standing of America.

The top 1% rule our country, being the millionaires and billionaires, then we have the middle class and finally the at or below poverty line part of our population.

Specifically, in Georgia whites who are below poverty range at 506,300 people vs the black community which is at 706,300, that’s 200,000 more-black people living at or below poverty in Georgia. If we were able to fix the poverty gap between whites and blacks we would be able to have economic inclusion. The would allow competition between major black cooperation’s, business and entertainment in society. For the first time, African Americans would be on an equal playing field, no longer at a disadvantage.

Another solution to our racism crisis in America is unequal education, which leads eventually leads to economic inclusion. In a study done by Jake News for an article called Graduation Gap he noticed that from 2003- 2013 black student’s graduation rates went up 2.1 percent, at the same time, white student’s graduation rates increased from 54percent to 60, an entire 5

points.
If we were able to increase the graduation rates with black students, we would be able to get the gap closed. In order to do so, there would need to be a shift in the amount of funding put into schools in urban areas. Provide, a quality education with new textbooks, technology, and teachers that are acquit for the job. Not only would we have to rework the education system but we would have to install more intensities, in the students as well as the parents. The student should want to learn and better themselves.
With an education reform and an increase in the graduation rate between whites and blacks, the number of black students going to college with increase. This should allow an increase in employment, which should create a thriving black economy and overall help to economy of the country. For the first-time blacks will be seem as equal competition, with equal education, and included in a fair economic society.