You May Ask Yourself: Racial Discrimination In America

According to the textbook, You May Ask Yourself, a denotative definition for the word discrimination is a harmful or negative acts, excluding thoughts, against people labeled inferior in comparison to their own racial category without regard to their individuality. Also, discrimination can be associated with segregation, the legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity; as a result, public services, businesses, government, amongst other industries is legally prohibited from discriminating people on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. The concept of discrimination has existed for over centuries, from Plessy v. Ferguson when the Supreme Court enforced the “separate but equal” doctrine, which allowed ethnicities to be publicly divided so long as there were proper services and conditions for each minority, to the growing segregation during World War II in America concerning the racist remarks against the Nazi. (Conley, 2013; Federal, 2016).