Why Do Minorities Have To Become Successful

Do you think minorities have to work had to gain success? They do; Even though there's laws against inequality of blacks, Mexicans,etc, the minority of the U.S has a harder time becoming successful compared to white people/. The unemployment rate for people of color is 9.5% and compared to the rate of whites(2.2%), we aren't given a very fair shot at getting a job. Recently, some of them are even being killed by cops for reasons that have no proof behind it. For example: The person had a gun or tried to attacked the cop. The circumstances of each of these situations are very suspicious. Even though the minority has gone through slavery and its over, blacks, Mexicans, etc, still need to work super hard to gain success. “For over 400 years , over 4 million African slaves toiled in the fields of the south. After thousands of dead an eventual Civil War these slaves were finally fired,”said by Lorenzo Goodman in “Our Dark Times”. Our ancestors have been captured, told to work with no pay on inhumane jobs & beaten for reasons unknown. Eventually these actions led to a war that ended in the Africans being freed. Even though slavery was ended back then, it was still very difficult to get the minority to be treated as

The government felt that whites were still superior to blacks and all other minorities.”To end segregation , African Americans faced violence and discrimination for over a century,”said by James Walker in “The Hard Road”. Minorities had to force the people of the country to treat them as equals. Like when Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus and refused to move. She knew that it wasn't fair to have all black people sit in the back. She did what she felt like and sat where she wanted to. After she got arrested and tried in court, the discrimination did not end but more people started believing that the way minority is treated what