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Post Racism In America

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Overt racism has been a very large matter in America 's past. Racism, having existed for three centuries, outlawed 50 years ago, continues to persist as modern/aversive racism. Effects of deprived rights to a colossal population through three hundred years of racism, are now in full display of the world and show the extensive immutable mindset formed by the hypocrisy of the West. Our society is a racist one, and will continue to be racist unless awareness increases. America, thought by as many ignorant individuals a country in an era of post-racism, has failed in changing the mindset of people in a significant manner. The belief that America is a post-racial society is one that is ethically and politically true, culturally, there hasn 't been any significant change. "Post-racial" America is a theoretical term, one that is untrue by great lengths. This invisible line of perverse segregation wasn 't created in a day, it 's a gradual build up of 3 centuries, 10 generations, something built over such a long period of time doesn 't disappear that simply. Current intercommunication between Black Americans and society displays the long haul of America towards the post-racial society envisioned by leaders of the …show more content…

The constitutional laws of America changed about 50 years ago, completely abolishing racial segregation. After receiving their long-awaited freedom, the economic gap between blacks and whites was gigantic. The main reason for economic disparity among African Americans was the Jim Crow laws, the set of laws introduced after the abolition of slave trade, putting African Americans at huge social, economic and educational disadvantages. After-effects of these laws show till date. Brilliantly constructed, Jim Crow laws entrenched the image of superiority in whites in America for three generations. Something that has existed and been embedded into individuals since their forefathers time won 't perish that easily. Its main goal was embedment of white supremacy for

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Moral values were lost in the mid 1950s and lasted until 1968. African Americans were considered “lower class” compared to whites. There was a line that the colored race could not pass before authority. If blacks questioned authority, it was paid through crucial consequences. Segregation creates hatred, takes away rights, and kills family heritage.

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In his 1915 book, The Negro in the United States, W.E.B. DuBois wrote, "There was one thing that the white South feared more than negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency” (“The Negro” Par. 41). After the end of the Civil War, white southerners were faced with one of the worst nightmares coming to true: African Americans were freed from slavery, granted equal protection, and given the right to vote. As Reconstruction progressed, African Americans were confronted with significant change for the fist tim in the history of the United States. After the removal of the Federal Troops following the corrupt bargain of 1877, there was a period of relative calm in the South which was ended by the Supreme Court decision to legalize segregation in the Plessy v.

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Every country on this beautiful sphere that we call earth has its own view on society. All countries around the world views America as being the land of the free and the land of being able to express yourself, but their just looking through a microscope .Whether those countries know it or not America has flaws. One of Americans biggest flaw is racial discrimination against people of color. When Jim Crow laws were introduced in the 1890’s it had a lasting effect on people of color socially, mentally, and their opportunities.

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When these laws, also called Jim Crow Laws, were taken to the Supreme Court through the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). The Supreme Court established the concept of separate but equal, which would not be challenged until the 1950’s. This concept would not be as bad if the facilities and opportunities were actually equal, but this was not the case. (Lecture

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