Racial Issues In Big Cities

Racial issues are an important part of any city in America today. America is a racially diverse country but still seems to have many problems as far as racial equality, race relations, and encouraging diversity. My community is in, what I think, is a fairly unique situation in terms of race. According to the census and other sources I found on the internet, the population of Fulton NY is 95.9% white. This seems to be quite different from many places in this country today. The city of Syracuse is only about thirty minutes away and the numbers there tell a very different story. In Syracuse the white population only makes up 62.4% of the people there with African Americans making up 25%. This difference hopefully helps you understand why my town is different than many others. In my community, most people look like I do as far as skin color and the like. I tend to have little contact with anyone I would consider a minority. I would say I interact with a non white person maybe once or twice a week. There are of course differences in appearance even when people are of the same race. It’s really hard to say how
Revitalizing certain areas of Fulton and Syracuse would probably lead to better relations between people in general. There are many buildings in both the small town of Fulton and the large city of Syracuse that are in need of repair and happen to be where minorities reside. If I could, I would also change how the media works around this area. Every time a crime is reported, it seems like it is an African American who has perpetrated it. I feel that this slant makes people more afraid of one another and makes getting along harder. This is actually a problem that I believe the country as a whole has when it comes to race. There always seems to be a minority responsible for committing crimes in communities across the