The Role Of Racism In The Devil In The Grove By Gilbert King
In the Pulitzer prize winning novel The Devil in The Grove by Gilbert King, King states that ...
Through years of suffering, slavery, and segregation, African Americans have experienced such cruelty, which some believe to have ended more than 50 years ago, however this cruelty is still widely abundant today. Whether it be discrimination in the workplace, or the perceptions and stereotypes people create about them, African Americans are severely mistreated. Although progress has been made in decreasing the amount of racism in America, there is still much work to be done.
Racism originates from our propensity to create racial stereotypes based off of one's skin color, nationality, or physical characteristics. These stereotypes are constructed from generations of discriminatory feelings and cannot always be prevented. Although one may not want to think differently about other races, we are predisposed to thinking in that way, making it improbable for racism to ever truly not exist. Racism is present in many forms, one of which is in the workplace, where African Americans often get …show more content…
Stories present themselves daily on the news about African Americans being treated more harshly by police than whites or even being shot and killed for unnecessary reasons, which have caused widespread controversy and protests. African Americans are also arrested “at a rate 10 times higher than people who are not black,” (Brad) and “are stopped, searched, arrested and imprisoned at rates higher than people of other races,” (Brad) clearly showing the discrimination against African Americans in the U.S police system. Furthermore “advertising also has a history of racial discrimination” (Bennett, Hill, Daddario), substantiating the fact that racism and discrimination are still as present, if not even more abundant now, as they were half a century
Through years of suffering, slavery, and segregation, African Americans have experienced such cruelty, which some believe to have ended more than 50 years ago, however this cruelty is still widely abundant today. Whether it be discrimination in the workplace, or the perceptions and stereotypes people create about them, African Americans are severely mistreated. Although progress has been made in decreasing the amount of racism in America, there is still much work to be done.
Racism originates from our propensity to create racial stereotypes based off of one's skin color, nationality, or physical characteristics. These stereotypes are constructed from generations of discriminatory feelings and cannot always be prevented. Although one may not want to think differently about other races, we are predisposed to thinking in that way, making it improbable for racism to ever truly not exist. Racism is present in many forms, one of which is in the workplace, where African Americans often get …show more content…
Stories present themselves daily on the news about African Americans being treated more harshly by police than whites or even being shot and killed for unnecessary reasons, which have caused widespread controversy and protests. African Americans are also arrested “at a rate 10 times higher than people who are not black,” (Brad) and “are stopped, searched, arrested and imprisoned at rates higher than people of other races,” (Brad) clearly showing the discrimination against African Americans in the U.S police system. Furthermore “advertising also has a history of racial discrimination” (Bennett, Hill, Daddario), substantiating the fact that racism and discrimination are still as present, if not even more abundant now, as they were half a century