Examples Of Inequality In The United States

Still to this day, slavery and the following inequality in race have brought down the African race in America. Examples like the Freedom Train in the 1940s that made concessions to white Southerners, and even as far as today in Hurricane Katrina where government support took incredibly long to respond and aid the people of mostly poor African communities that were flooded. Another example is of the differences in home ownership. “Equity in Owner Occupied Housing is most of the wealth for most Americans” (Course Slides p. 26), and this created a discrepancy in race due to the government’s unwillingness enforcing laws to prohibit housing discrimination in the 1950s and other times. Through the Freedom Train that only seemed to represent the
The idea of the American Century, a reason to create the Freedom Train, was in a way Americans wishing to impose their way of life upon other countries. From this idea, the Freedom Train was made to remind Americans of all their great accomplishments but in turn it just off put African Americans by not including important legislature amendments in their history in the country. With the glaring omission and the concessions the Train made to white Southerners, African Americans saw this as Americans wanted to impose their same way of thinking about inequality. African Americans could of felt that the Freedom Train could have been a threat to their fight for equality. With the idea behind the Train being to remind Americans of their identity by illustrating their past accomplishments, they left out the most important part of African American history and choose to highlight their worst enemies in the
However, “the majority of the people in the state were perpetually robbed of the vote” (Coates p. 3), this was talking about Mississippi during the years of Jim Crow laws preventing African Americans to vote. From there without the ability to change the policies in place, African Americans lost their land and homes through manufactured crimes and their land was taken from them without a fair trial. Coates states from an investigation that tens of millions of dollars were taken from African Americans in the sum of 24,000 acres of land, this created the inequality in robbery going straight to white Americans. Adding to that was the fear of speaking out against it, “Just be quite…Because they’ll come and kill us all” (Coates p. 6). If they chose to speak out and try to make there lives better and equal they faced the possibility of being killed by those attempting to keep African Americans below the white