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” They say that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, yet everyday people are judged just based on their skin color. “In this current society we see racism surrounding us, people who are mostly affected by it are Non- Whites. Discrimination Against Non- Whites, is when a minority usually gets spoken down to or not given the same opportunity to succeed just because of their skin color. When we first arrived to this country we experienced discrimination first hand; whether it was the disgusting looks my mother received from my neighbor for wearing the hijab or the racial slurs we heard as we walked by people. Discrimination against non-whites usually is caused by many Caucasian people believing they are more superior than any other race. …show more content…

There are many harms and benefits of a utilitarianism when it comes to discrimination. One type of benefit would be that majority of the people get what they want. For example, a small percentage of the people believed that races should be separated but since there was such a big majority of the people who believe races should be equal, it is not illegal to actually segregates someone. Which means that it still benefits people to this day. A harm of the utilitarianism is during the 1800 many people were against the fact of the slaves having a voice. And even though it wasn 't fair they put into place the grandfather clause and the literacy test in order to vote. A huge majority of the slaves did not know how to read or write so they were not able to pass the test and have their voice heard. So since the country was run people who believed that white supremacy should be taken into place unfair laws were put into place which harmed the African American race with having a …show more content…

Based on John Rawls-Theory of justice he kind of portrays of what a society should be like, the lower class should have more advantages and the political offices should be open more to everyone under fair equality. United states fail to comprehend these basic aspects of equality. When it comes to discrimination Against non-whites we see it daily in our political system, the house of congress has little to no diversity at all, by looking at the article by Washington Post-the house of Congress has 79.8%-white, 10.1% black, 7.8% Hispanic, and 2.3% Asian. Those numbers seem to show how little diverse or any how hard it is for any type of community trying to join congress. The Senate 's representatives is even more shocking number showing a drastic minimal diversity, 94%-white, 2% black, 3% Hispanic, 1% Asian. When it comes to the theory of j John Rawls wanted everyone to be equal to almost have the same opportunity to join government and have their voice heard by voting and doing many other things. When it comes to diversity there may also be discrimination present, there seems to be discrimination of the way of they choose who becomes the next senator or congressmen; mostly due to the fact that the White race makes up almost the entire senate and congress

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