Ethnicity: We need a change !

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

Race and Ethnicity in the United States

Submitted by: Jamila Ferguson

Race and ethnicity is huge in the united states. Sadly, race and ethnicity once determined who you could marry, where you could sit, where you could eat, whether or not you had the right to vote and even who you could look at, in some states. Still today, race and ethnicity determines the type of jobs available to you, the quality of schooling you may receive, the difference in the services you receive and the value of your home or property. Race and ethnicity establishs the amount of money you make. Race and ethinicity is also a factor in the type of sentencing or amount of time you will serve in jail. Race and ethnicity sometimes determines where you may end up in the next ten years of your life, whether you drive a 2011 mercedes benz or become an convicted felon without any rights to vote! Race and ethnicity determined how easy or difficult it was in the job of parenting or having to worry about the safety of your children and family. This is sad. Whatever happened to judging people by the content of there character and not by the color of their skin? There is a large disproportion in equality between the majority and minority. Who will step-up? Who will stand out against this epedimic? Something need to be done. Someone needs to address this problem or this condition will continue to become worse and worse.