Unfair Treatment Of African American Girls Summary

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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. …show more content…

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

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