Racial Segregation In America
The separation of races in different cultures is usually in order to add this stigma that one group of people is inferior to another. Here in America race is based largely as binary opposition between black and white, and this system for much of America’s history has oppressed other races (Nanda and Warms 249). These racial laws have been focusing on the idea of white purity, and as it states in the video keep other races from tainting white blood (ABC News 2003). Early Americans basically had to keep this insinuation that blacks were inferior so that they could be kept under control, and used in the slave trade, and later this led to the segregation of blacks and whites when the slave trade ended. A great example of this was Samuel Morton
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The example I used above are still for the most part relevant today, America is largely a country divided into either black or white. In the video it shows Wayne Joseph who has been classified as a black man for the majority of his life, then comes to find out that he has little to no African heritage (ABC News 2003). This shows that we don’t truly know someone’s race, and even if we do because race is “fluid” as the video puts it what stops people from identifying as any race, as Wayne’s mom put it she may not technically be black but because she grew up and always identified as that she will not change it (ABC News 2003). Another major consequence is that household income is varies largely between white households, and every other household, with white household income being thirteen time higher than that of an African-American household (Tanzina Vega 2013). Also other races are incarcerated, not only at higher rates, but usually with much harsher punishments. I brought up Brock Turner in my discussion who only served three months for raping an unconscious woman, yet 53% percent of federal prisoners are serving typically large prison sentences for nonviolent drug related offenses (Prisons, Jails, and People Arrested for Drugs). There are many more consequences of racial inequalities in America, and if there are this many in America there are definitely prevalent issues regarding race in other
The example I used above are still for the most part relevant today, America is largely a country divided into either black or white. In the video it shows Wayne Joseph who has been classified as a black man for the majority of his life, then comes to find out that he has little to no African heritage (ABC News 2003). This shows that we don’t truly know someone’s race, and even if we do because race is “fluid” as the video puts it what stops people from identifying as any race, as Wayne’s mom put it she may not technically be black but because she grew up and always identified as that she will not change it (ABC News 2003). Another major consequence is that household income is varies largely between white households, and every other household, with white household income being thirteen time higher than that of an African-American household (Tanzina Vega 2013). Also other races are incarcerated, not only at higher rates, but usually with much harsher punishments. I brought up Brock Turner in my discussion who only served three months for raping an unconscious woman, yet 53% percent of federal prisoners are serving typically large prison sentences for nonviolent drug related offenses (Prisons, Jails, and People Arrested for Drugs). There are many more consequences of racial inequalities in America, and if there are this many in America there are definitely prevalent issues regarding race in other