Carolyn Miller<\/p>\n
Professor Wade<\/p>\n
Sociology 101<\/p>\n
20 July 2018<\/p>\n
Issue of Racism in United States of America<\/p>\n
Racism is regarding a particular\u00a0race\u00a0inferior\u00a0or superior as compared to another\u00a0race. According to Grosfoguel 2016, Journal of World-Systems Research, racism is a belief that the social, as well as the moral traits of a\u00a0specific\u00a0person,\u00a0is determined\u00a0by the biological characteristics which the person is born\u00a0with. Racism separates people according to the races they come from for example whether black and\u00a0whites are\u00a0hence providing a belief that this races two should remain separated far apart from one another. In the\u00a0history\u00a0of human beings, racism has been\u00a0a profound\u00a0belief making people hate one another according to the skin color of that person.\u00a0Racism also is extended to dividing people as per the\u00a0different\u00a0languages\u00a0people speak, where a person is born as well as customs of a particular person or a group of people.<\/p>\n
In recent days, people have practiced racism in most places for example in offices favoring a person from their race while dealing unfairly to a person of a\u00a0different\u00a0race. In most cases, racism has\u00a0led to wars\u00a0amongst people of different races. Also, racism has resulted in slavery where\u00a0a race\u00a0which\u00a0is regarded\u00a0as inferior becomes slaves to the\u00a0race\u00a0that seems superior. Additionally, racism has also led to the\u00a0creation\u00a0of legal codes as per the different races to different people in a particular nation.<\/p>\n
A report by Blank, Louis & Kenneth 1970, Institutional Racism in America shows that, racism has been evident in most states such as\u00a0the\u00a0USA\u00a0where black people are seen as inferior while the white\u00a0is regarded\u00a0as superior. A US police officer, for example, is more likely to shot black people as compared to him or her shooting white people.\u00a0A research conducted by Walker, Samuel 1977″A critical history of police reform.” revealed that, the\u00a0death of black people who were victims of police brutality accounted for about thirty percent of the total deaths while that of the white people only accounted for only thirteen percent.\u00a0This\u00a0reveals how the US police excessively use\u00a0force against the black people. The black people despite being killed by the white police officers; they also face other forms of physical injuries such as injury to\u00a0the\u00a0spinal\u00a0cord by a police officer\u00a0who\u00a0may also\u00a0result\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0death\u00a0of the victims.<\/p>\n
Moreover, it is evident that the police officers\u00a0act\u00a0as the defender body of the communities of the white while they\u00a0work ruthlessly to the black communities (Williams 173-188). The police\u00a0act\u00a0as conservers of the white\u00a0community\u00a0while acting contrary to the black community. In situations where the black community wants to investigate the doings of the white\u00a0community, the police are called out immediately to deal with the black people.\u00a0When the black people\u00a0protest\u00a0on brutalities performed to them, they are ruthlessly\u00a0dealt\u00a0with by the police. The people of Northern America view themselves as \u2018good-hearted\u2019 hence the black people\u00a0have\u00a0no say in their settlements.\u00a0They\u00a0consider\u00a0the black as always looking for trouble when they protest against the evils performed to them.\u00a0The USA police in most cases\u00a0act\u00a0as agents of what the white communities want while acting contrary to the black communities living in the\u00a0USA.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As discussed above, racism provides a belief that some races are superior while others are inferior hence separating people apart. All the arguments brought forward concerning the\u00a0superiority\u00a0of a particular race or inferiority of a\u00a0specific\u00a0race has no truth behind it. Different scientists have never regarded whether\u00a0races\u00a0should be one of the criteria\u00a0for\u00a0classifying people. What\u00a0is viewed\u00a0as differences amongst people such as the skin color, the color of hair, as well as the facial makeup of an individual, are only phenotypic characteristics that\u00a0exist among people,\u00a0but\u00a0have the same genetic\u00a0make-up.\u00a0Racism has led to more violence in different countries such as wars which in most cases hinders development. All people in the world; whether black or\u00a0white is equal hence both should be treated fairly in all fields and should enjoy the same human rights\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Works Cited<\/p>\n
Blank, Owen, Louis L. Knowles, and Kenneth Prewitt.\u00a0Institutional racism in America. Prentice Hall, 1970.<\/p>\n
Grosfoguel, Ramon. “What is Racism?.”\u00a0Journal of World-Systems Research\u00a022.1 (2016): 9. <\/p>\n
Walker, Samuel. “A critical history of police reform.”\u00a0Lexington, MA: Lexington Books\u00a0(1977).<\/p>\n
Williams, David R. “Race, socioeconomic status, and health the added effects of racism <\/p>\n
and discrimination.”\u00a0Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences\u00a0896.1 (1999): 173 -188.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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