Examples Of Bias Against African Americans

Bias is defined as the prejudice supporting or opposing a group, person, or thing. Source one is demonstrative of the bias against Black people held by a large group of individuals. The source displays the varying opinions held by Black people and White people regarding issues such as Japanese Americans during WWII and African Americans during slavery. The statistics shown in the source exhibit that generally, Black people believe that there should be more apologies and monetary reparations given to African and Japanese Americans for the racism and injustices they faced during WWII and times of slavery. Looking at the statistics given, only 5% of Black individuals believe that racial equality has been achieved as opposed to the 38% of White

The question is written in all capital letters, placing emphasis on it, this paired with the percentages of people who agree with the question shows the negative aspects of globalization. If the author wanted to show a globalist perspective, they could have used a different set of statistics in which the numbers are the same, demonstrating no difference based on race. Bias is presented in this source by looking at the experiences of two different groups of people who have vastly different experiences, therefore causing a stark difference in opinions. The opinions of Black and White people are extremely difficult to compare due to the way they have respectively been treated in history and are being treated currently. The kind of globalization seen is political, as well as cultural. WWII is mentioned, as well as slavery, internment, government apologies and reparations, which are all political aspects of globalization. The cultural part of the source comes from both the groups of people and their individual experience when it comes to race and discrimination, and the opinions they have due to

Reparations are compensation given to a person or group due to something they have experienced in the past, usually from another group of people. Reparations come in many forms, but monetary reparations are the most common, also seen in the source. The white person in the source, who is very small and bound by a chain to a large ball, is forced to pay reparations to the black person, who is very large in comparison. The whip demonstrates consequences when the person fails to pay reparations. The writing in the cartoon is used to inform readers that the white person, nor their ancestors had anything to do with slavery in America. The sizes of the people, the check, the ball, and the whip in the source are a large indication of the power imbalances in the relationship between the two individuals. Source three focuses on a rejectionist perspective, displayed through the negative implications placed within the source. The whip, the language used, “Shut up and write the check white boy!!”, the large ball and chain, etc. all hold up the idea of rejecting globalization. If the author wanted to exhibit a globalist perspective, they could have shown a more positive opinion of slavery reparations, and interpreted it as something positive and necessary, instead of showing such power imbalances and negative connotations. The irony is represented in the source from the concept of opposite power dynamics between the two people.