Racial Bias In The United States Essay

Racial Bias in the United States

The United States is home of many diverse ethnicities that come here to live the American Dream. Although they are legal immigrants, white americans still treat them as a minority group. There is still racial bias here that is causing tensions between ethnic groups despite all the efforts to stop it.

Over the years, the United States has accumulated many diverse immigrants (326,474,000 total). The whites still make up the majority of the population, seventy-seven percent. The latino population has increased twenty-one million since 2000 and makeup seventeen percent. African americans make up thirteen percent of the population (Census 7). There is tension between these ethnic groups because of their differences in physical appearances, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs. Many white americans believe they are superior to other nationalities that live in the U.S. because the white man has had more power than the others for hundreds of years.

Many of the white people who started to come to the U.S. from Europe, came here freely and had their physical and social rights unlike the Africans. When africans first started coming to America, they came here imprisoned, having no rights

In the workforce, there are wage gaps amongst different races. African americans earn seventy-three percent as much as whites and hispanics earn sixty-nine percent as much (Patten 9). Although the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the State and Federal powers to exploit an employee based upon their race, religion, and gender, there is still discrimination in how much a person earns based upon their race and gender. Even though there is an equal employment opportunity agency that protects an individual’s civil rights in a workplace, there is still racial bias in salary