Race Discrimination Examples

Race Discrimination Race discrimination has affected everybody in some form. It is like a disease that everyone has but there is no cure. It has followed humans since the dawn of their existence and will continue to follow the human race until the end of civilization. These two words encompass things that can happen in matter of seconds to having a lasting impact decades. Race discrimination means to treat individuals differently because of their ethnicity, nationality, and color (Pager 351). Beginning with the nomads that roamed the super continent Pangea, people stayed with “their” ethnicity. They wondered the world in subcultures thus giving rise to the early civilizations. They soon began to rival other civilizations, eventually resulting

This can be seen historically and most notable in the United States Civil War where the persecution was aimed at people with the same nationality. An example of this was people calling the Southern States soldiers “Graybacks” and the Northern States soldiers “Blue Bellies”. After this hostile and horrific time, laws like the Jim Crow Law or Black Codes were enacted to suppress these “lesser” races by putting sanctions on their earned freedom granted to them by the 13, 14 and 15 amendments of the Constitution (“Black Codes”

The United States denied that they had a race discrimination problem for many years. This lack of attention led to the fallout of the Race Riots that plagued the country for decades. During those years of racial unrest, two prominent men would come to head the fight on race discrimination, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcom X. These men wanted to solve the discrimination problem but went about it two completely different ways. One approach included violent uprising while the other approach used peaceful protest. In the 1960’s these two approaches would collide with the protests of MLK and Malcom X. Both men wanted the same thing which was to end discrimination, but both men were killed before achieving their