Submitted : Yahne' Coleman
Ethnicity plays a role in America this very day. Its in our housing , school education , prison system and even who we elect for President. Life for minorities has always been a struggle. Today many people walk around as if racism doesn't exist but it does. In our society people talk politically correct but all the hate and racism is engraved in our laws.
From years ago we as Black people was not allowed to live in certain neighborhoods , the nice ones. Caucasian people felt as though we were a hinder to society. There for when the Fair Housing Act was passed and we moved into those nice neighborhoods we always dreamed about , guess what. . .the Whites quickly ran. Anywhere Blacks were did not have value , consider to Whites. So the nice neighborhoods and houses that we longed for was considered trash within months. The taxes wasn't good which left low funds for our schools and hinder our children education as well.
Now in the present you see bad school systems and not enough resources in every Black community , it never changed or progressed. We are affected by our past. The fact that racism is living deep in our laws will only keep us at this low level. The results are bad education , bad jobs and just NO OPPORTUNITIES.Today there is literally millions of African Americans in prison and the numbers are just increasing. We are only repeating slave history.
Even though every Caucasian person isn't racist there are still more out there. I feel as though we need not to be ignorant and educate our self and our children. We need to come together and finally get the rights we deserve. On paper we are all the same , in God eyes we are all part of him and equal. Our ethnicity is clearly the reason we don't experience the things a White person that is just like us , same knowledge , same sex and same age experiences. We all need to love one another and teach love to our children because racism and not born its made. The fight for equality isn't over !
http://www.nber.org/digest/nov06/w12078.html
Ethnicity plays a role in America this very day. Its in our housing , school education , prison system and even who we elect for President. Life for minorities has always been a struggle. Today many people walk around as if racism doesn't exist but it does. In our society people talk politically correct but all the hate and racism is engraved in our laws.
From years ago we as Black people was not allowed to live in certain neighborhoods , the nice ones. Caucasian people felt as though we were a hinder to society. There for when the Fair Housing Act was passed and we moved into those nice neighborhoods we always dreamed about , guess what. . .the Whites quickly ran. Anywhere Blacks were did not have value , consider to Whites. So the nice neighborhoods and houses that we longed for was considered trash within months. The taxes wasn't good which left low funds for our schools and hinder our children education as well.
Now in the present you see bad school systems and not enough resources in every Black community , it never changed or progressed. We are affected by our past. The fact that racism is living deep in our laws will only keep us at this low level. The results are bad education , bad jobs and just NO OPPORTUNITIES.Today there is literally millions of African Americans in prison and the numbers are just increasing. We are only repeating slave history.
Even though every Caucasian person isn't racist there are still more out there. I feel as though we need not to be ignorant and educate our self and our children. We need to come together and finally get the rights we deserve. On paper we are all the same , in God eyes we are all part of him and equal. Our ethnicity is clearly the reason we don't experience the things a White person that is just like us , same knowledge , same sex and same age experiences. We all need to love one another and teach love to our children because racism and not born its made. The fight for equality isn't over !
http://www.nber.org/digest/nov06/w12078.html
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