A study I came across in the American Economic Review reports that applicants with Black-sounding names received 50% fewer callbacks for jobs than those with white-sounding names. It is crazy that half the people with black sounding names got called back. It is even crazier that people are using race as an obstacle to getting into a job. African Americans should find it as easy as everyone else to find a job, get an education, get credit, or just to live peacefully without being discriminated because everyone deserves the same rights.
African American girls are unfairly reprimanded by their white peers. An article called “Author schools educators on the treatment of African American girls” from Newsela outlines several stories of unfair treatment to African American girls in school. One of these stories is about a girl that was suspended for wearing shorts on a hot day because the school said it would attract male gender, but a white girl that was wearing shorter shorts was just given a pass back to class. Reasoning/Explanation #1 This is significant because it shows that people aren’t over the idea of racism and it is affecting the minds of these kids because they are being suspended for reasons that are unfair when compared to the white boys and girls.
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However, they make up more than 40 percent of the preschool children who have been suspended.” Newsela also quotes that “American girls represented 50.7 percent of the girls who received more than one school suspension in 2013.” This is important because it shows that African American kids are more likely to get suspended when they are just like anyone else, some teachers are targeting them because of their
In the book Students On Strike, a group of high school students were devastated at how unfairly they were treated and “It was easy to see that schools for blacks in our county were no equal to those for white children” (Stokes 52).
(Ellison 349) Another occurrence of being punished for being different is the white male establishment treatment of the nude female. She may be above the black boys
In the figure presented above shows the ethnic groups who get suspended the most. It is evident from the graph that out of all the people receiving out of school suspensions, 20% are black male students. Meanwhile, White male counterparts stand at less than 7%
Black adolescents are more likely to be suspended or expelled than their White peers, yet close to all government and community based programs are focused on specifically helping young Black men achieve academically. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw wrote the article “Black Girls Matter” in 2015. This article was meant to be informative and persuasive. Crenshaw wanted to inform readers about the issue of Black girls being excluded from race-based government initiatives and persuade them to agree with her claim about this being an issue. In order to convince readers that government and community officials need to create more programs that focus on the academic success of Black girls, Crenshaw had to inform readers with statistics and other facts about
According to Crenshaw, even though the White House, through their signature gender-and-race targeted initiatives address racism, they still tend to undermine and ignore black girls. Okazawa-Rey and Kirk define racism as racial prejudice and discrimination that are supported by institutional power and authority, where there is an existence of the ideology of white superiority and is used to the advantages of white people and the disadvantages of people of color (Okazawa-Rey and Kirk G-5). This leads Crenshaw, to use the next theory, sexism, as a base to elaborate her article, thus naming it, ‘Black Girls Matter.’ Sexism can be defined as the “attitudes, actions, and institutional practices that subordinate individuals because of their gender” (Okazawa-Rey and Kirk
Shelby Steele made a very good analysis on the way the society thinks and acts now that black and white people seems to have broken the barrier of discrimination and racism. He described affirmative action as the way black people take advantage of the historical discrimination against them to get special benefits and opportunities. Steele strongly disagrees with that practice, he believes it affects the society and it creates a feeling of fear and uncertainty for white people. I completely agree with his point of view, buy giving black people those kind of preferences we are being racist with white people, but unfortunately in this country that concept is overrated and it only applies for black people. I also believe that promoting that kind
As an African American male, I experienced inequality, and judgment from individuals that have no idea what kind of person I truly am. As a youth, I received a lackluster education, which has resulted in me underachieving in a number of my college classes. It has come to my attention that other colored students are currently experiencing and receiving the same inadequate learning environment and educatio...
Getting played is a well written portrayal of the harsh realities of African American girls in poor urban environments. The theoretical framework this book uses will be related to Sampson and Wilson 's Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality 1995. The relationship with race and crime is complex with historical, cultural, structural factors and more.
In public schools, students are subjected to acts of institutional racism that may change how they interact with other students. In the short story “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by Packer, readers are allowed to view firsthand how institutionalized racism affects Dina, who is the main character in the story. Packer states “As a person of color, you shouldn’t have to fit in any white, patriarchal system” (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere 117). The article “Disguised Racism in Public Schools” by Brodbelt states “first, the attitudes of teachers toward minority group pupils” (Brodbelt 699). Like the ideas in the article “Disguised Racism in Public Schools” Dina encounters institutionalized oppression on orientation day at Yale.
My first confrontation with widespread racism occurred during high school, an experience that first motivated me to attend law school. Attending a culturally diverse school, racial differences had never been a problem until sophomore year. It was then I, an African-American, was confronted with the glaring realization that racism against persisted. My majority African-American cheerleading squad attended a football game where barraged by the home team’s spectators screaming racial slurs as we entered. At the end of the game, a racially motivated brawl ensued. I was livid, astonished and confused. That night I learned that although discrimination laws have changed, there remain pockets of society that have not changed with it. While it prompted me to learn about my culture, this event also pushed me to fight against the stereotypes weather through my own actio...
Minorities, such as African Americans, have been oppressed for hundreds of years, dating back to the time our country was formed. Affirmative action doesn’t only mend the wrongdoings of the past, but helps fix wrongdoings in the present and future. Job applicants with white-sounding names get called back twice as much than applicants with ethnic-sounding names, even when they have the same exact resumes. This is due to systemic racism. Systemic racism is based on the fact that the “United States was founded as a racist society, and thus embedded in all social institutions, structures, and relations within our society.”. This means, that throughout history, white people have been favored by government and other institutions while minorities have been oppressed. Black Americans make up thirteen percent of the world’s population, but only hold 2.6 percent of the world’s wealth, while white people make up seventy seven percent of the population and hold ninety percent of the world’s wealth. A black female’s median wealth is $120 compared to a white female with $41,000. This wage gap is absolutely shocking and only possible because of systemic racism. Redlining is an example of a discriminatory policy. Redlining is the practice of banks and real estate agents turning away minority families from predominantly white neighborhoods. This is an example of institutionalized racism. The practice of redlining led to the kind of job you
Prejudice, racism, discrimination have always been present in society. Combined together, they form one of the most terrible and dreadful ways of treating and thinking about another human being. The effects of these actions and views on individuals have impacted society in an irreparable and tragic way. Judging someone by the color of their skin creates permanent impacts in people’s lives. A consequence caused by that old-fashioned way of thinking and seeing society in general is the effects these views have on black children education: a considerable number of American black children suffer to get a good education since they are in preschool.
Also stated are that blacks are suspended in schools at more a rate than whites, blacks are arrested more often for drugs than whites, the employment or hiring of blacks took longer to get a callback for a job than whites, purely based on the sound of their name. This is really unfortunate knowing that people of a different race are seriously under privileged compared to whites. Further explored along the line of racism in employment, in a Huffington Post article, author of The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism Nancy DiTomaso says, “In February, just 6.8 percent of white workers remained unemployed while 13.8 percent of black workers and 9.6 percent of Hispanic workers were unable to find
According to the most recent data from the Department of Education, preschoolers who are racially diverse are being disciplined at a rate 3 times as great as their white classmates (Rich, 2014). The Department of Education data shows 48 percent of preschool suspensions were of black students who only make up 18% of all students attending preschool (Rich, 2014). This data is deeply disturbing. What could a preschooler possibly do to warrant a suspension?
Blacks look for jobs longer and sometimes more aggressively than whites do and they are 44% less likely to get hired for the job even when they are just as qualified. Today they have a law that jobs cannot discriminate on who to hire just because of their race or ethnicity, and even though that’s a law some jobs still discriminate, they just use a different reason for why they could not hire you. Other races have heard so many stereotypes and stories about African Americans and they also grew up being taught certain beliefs which become part of the economy.