Essay On African American Discrimination

BACKGROUND OF TOPIC

The United States and its founding documents, especially the U.S Constitution stands for liberty, democracy and justice around the world. This includes how it has buttressed the long-term enslavement of the African-American. Since the 1960s, we have witnessed many types of informal discriminations towards the African-American. Discrimination against the African-American had started back in the 17th and 18th centuries where they were brought from Africa to America as slaves. Their lives were very much difficult back then in which they faced serious discriminations and legal segregation. The English concern themselves as the civilized, while the African-American as savage and dirty. These attitudes were reflected on how the English treated the African-American especially on the work division. The African-American experienced slavery for over 4 years and one of it was due to the tobacco high demand. The European were taking the African-American as their initiative to keep the labor costs low and yet meet the spiraling demand. The exploitation of the African-American were never became an issue

This is because not all black people in United States are African-American such as the Afro-Caribbean, which are not targeted by racism. They are white people who were asked to describe how they feel towards the blacks and they frequently talk about their fear towards them, the social competence which is one of the reasons why the discriminations toward the black people still exist, and some of them also describe the alienation by their family when they marry the black people. However, this does not mean that all white people are racist, since discrimination does not just exist through something that we can see. They are two types of racism, active and passive and passive racism is the root of the discriminations they are facing