Racial discrimination in the US has been one of the major issues the country has faced for the longest period of time. Historically, the American society has been dominated by the whites. As a result, other communities living in the country such as black Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Irish Americans and American Jews have faced significant discrimination. However, the black Americans compared to the rest of the minorities living within the American society have faced more discrimination and for a much longer period of time (Blackmon, pp 19).
Racism in America today
Racial discrimination has greatly changed over the years in the manner in which the Africans living in America are oppressed. Currently, racism has been institutionalized thus making it systematic. This vice has been combined with integral societal aspects such as social, political, economic, cultural, ideological, and legal and several other structures existing within the American society. These structures are used in such a way that they assist in the maintenance of systematic inequality against the black Americans (Alexander, pp 32).
Racism is highly infused in the very basic foundations of the American society. The vice is in fact inseparable from economic basis of the capitalist society of the US. The wage gap that exists between the African American workers and the rest of the American society is one of the most noticeable and fundamental features. It is easily noticed both from super profits that are produced from super-exploitation of black Americans oppressed workers as well as the additional of extra gains created through the very fact that racism against the African Americans weakens and divides the American working class as well as dragging down the entire workforce (Feagin, pp 37).
Racial profiling is yet another area where black Americans have faced significant oppression from the white dominated American society. The African Americans have for several years been subjected to biased policing due to the notion that have been created in the country that this class of the American society is more likely to commit crimes compared to any other sections of the American society. All Americans regardless of their color are supposed to receive good high quality education. However, the schools are funded through the rates that are collected from the neighborhoods and not from the central government. Since most of the black Americans live in poor neighborhoods, fewer rates can be collected to finance the schools in which their children attend. This implies that even though the American laws regarding education are very clear and good, they do not guarantee the children of the African Americans quality education (Blackmon, pp 44).
The US systematic crisis of capitalism has added an entirely new dimension to black American racism. Mass lay offs and downsizing especially in the wake of the financial crisis has targeted the African American workers. They have therefore wiped much of the progress that had been achieved in reducing racial discrimination against the black Americans in the workplace. Homelessness, poverty and massive unemployment are some of the major ways in which racism against African Americans have been realized in the US as a result of the financial crisis. The rates of unemployment among black Americans are quite severe. Most of the Americans who are homeless happen to be blacks. This can be attributed to the minimal opportunities they have in the country which they can use to improve their living standards. The hideousness nature of economic racism is particularly noticeable due to the impact it has on the children of the black Americans, majority of them live in poverty (Feagin, pp 50).
African Americans living in the United States have continued to be discriminated against despite the fact that they have lived within this society for a couple of centuries. Most of the discrimination they face today is economically related. They are not given equal opportunities as the rest of the American society. This institutionalized and systematic way of discriminating the black Americans has made them to be more vulnerable economically compared to the rest of the American society.
Racism in America today
Racial discrimination has greatly changed over the years in the manner in which the Africans living in America are oppressed. Currently, racism has been institutionalized thus making it systematic. This vice has been combined with integral societal aspects such as social, political, economic, cultural, ideological, and legal and several other structures existing within the American society. These structures are used in such a way that they assist in the maintenance of systematic inequality against the black Americans (Alexander, pp 32).
Racism is highly infused in the very basic foundations of the American society. The vice is in fact inseparable from economic basis of the capitalist society of the US. The wage gap that exists between the African American workers and the rest of the American society is one of the most noticeable and fundamental features. It is easily noticed both from super profits that are produced from super-exploitation of black Americans oppressed workers as well as the additional of extra gains created through the very fact that racism against the African Americans weakens and divides the American working class as well as dragging down the entire workforce (Feagin, pp 37).
Racial profiling is yet another area where black Americans have faced significant oppression from the white dominated American society. The African Americans have for several years been subjected to biased policing due to the notion that have been created in the country that this class of the American society is more likely to commit crimes compared to any other sections of the American society. All Americans regardless of their color are supposed to receive good high quality education. However, the schools are funded through the rates that are collected from the neighborhoods and not from the central government. Since most of the black Americans live in poor neighborhoods, fewer rates can be collected to finance the schools in which their children attend. This implies that even though the American laws regarding education are very clear and good, they do not guarantee the children of the African Americans quality education (Blackmon, pp 44).
The US systematic crisis of capitalism has added an entirely new dimension to black American racism. Mass lay offs and downsizing especially in the wake of the financial crisis has targeted the African American workers. They have therefore wiped much of the progress that had been achieved in reducing racial discrimination against the black Americans in the workplace. Homelessness, poverty and massive unemployment are some of the major ways in which racism against African Americans have been realized in the US as a result of the financial crisis. The rates of unemployment among black Americans are quite severe. Most of the Americans who are homeless happen to be blacks. This can be attributed to the minimal opportunities they have in the country which they can use to improve their living standards. The hideousness nature of economic racism is particularly noticeable due to the impact it has on the children of the black Americans, majority of them live in poverty (Feagin, pp 50).
African Americans living in the United States have continued to be discriminated against despite the fact that they have lived within this society for a couple of centuries. Most of the discrimination they face today is economically related. They are not given equal opportunities as the rest of the American society. This institutionalized and systematic way of discriminating the black Americans has made them to be more vulnerable economically compared to the rest of the American society.
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