Racial Inequalities
The United States of America, the land of the free and home of the brave, a place where everyone is treated equally, right? The country that is at all the envy of all other countries because of the great "melting pot" that we have here in this great nation. But even though we do have great diversity, is it desirable to be a person of race in this country? This paper will ask these questions and explore the raw data that has happened in the last decade to see if being a non-white person living in the greatest nation in the world is such a great thing. The latest incidents in the media are frightening and give more of a feeling of "retro" progress as opposed to progress that ignites change in American minds about racism. Incidents such as the one involving the Haitian immigrant who was beaten and raped by police officers is a prime example of retro progress. The million-dollar question: is racism getting better or worse after decades of methods that try to fixing the problem? The Haitian man, Abner Louima, was sodomized with a toilet plunger handled by four of Brooklyn's 70th precinct police officers. Abner was left permanently disabled and raped of his dignity. The police spoke nothing of the incide
Louima has announced plans to file a fifty-five million dollar lawsuit against the city of New York. She is going to a black college and believes that by being taught by black teachers will benefit her because all through her life she has had white teachers and feels that her black teachers will bring forth the best in her academics. The young man who was asked to remove his shirt was awarded eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars the other two each received seventy-five thousand, totaling one million dollars. I think the tendency is to believe that racism is going away because there are no more signs for colored only or whites only. Now all Denny's employees go through diversity training and know what to and what not to do when dealing with people regardless of what they look, smell or talk like. But it is very apparent and very much here unless we do something to unmask it and destroy it forever. No one should ever be treated that way and if I were an Eddie Bauer executive I would have my employees to go through diversity training to prevent instances like this from happening again. The regular classes are a large majority black and honor classes by whites. On September 24 of that year, President Eisenhower intervened and ordered the Army of Little Rock to ensure that the black kids could attend and enter the school. The once all white student body is divided by 58% black and 39% white, while Central High as a whole is integrated, individual classes are not. The guard noticed that one of the men had on an Eddie Bauer shirt and asked him to remove it. At the same time white secret service were in and out before the Black men were even looked at. If we are unable to do this it will only get worse.
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