Essays on Racial Inequality

The problem of racial inequality in the United States continue to exist more than three hundred years. The issue of race is a source of grave inequality and injustice. According to de Gobineau, there are three races: white, black, and yellow. The white people hold intelligent and authority, they have power and privileges. The blacks…

Lyndon Johnson‘s statement can be summarized as the idea that equal opportunity is not enough Since the 1940’s great gains have been made in income, education, and occupation disparities in the African American community. However, past social and structural forces have affected the opportunities available to African Americans, and these disparities are still prevalent in…

Racial disparities have been an ongoing issue within the American healthcare system. Race is a subject many individuals tend to diverge from speaking about due to the ever-present inequalities within our society. Accessibility and affordability of proper healthcare can be a life or death situation, yet there are still unethical principles that affect treatment based…

According to the USSC, African American males receive almost 20 percent longer federal prison sentences than white males (Simon, Scott NPR). Harsher sentences are given to African American males. They serve a longer jail time/prison sentence given by a jury, while white males tend to serve a shorter sentence, or none at all for the…

Before there was racial equality, black and whites were separated. Jim Crow Laws that said, “Separate but equal,” were not equal at all. Whites during the 20th-century had more rights than their opposing black counterpart. Because of this, people sought to change. Blacks no longer wanted to be oppressed. Brave individuals such as Martin Luther…

When we talk about men is equal, are we trying to say that all people should treat equally? That all people should have the same opportunity to grow and thrive as best as he can? Being different is something that people in society seem not to understand, and it scares them. Society had standards, and…

Throughout the novel of King Solomon’s Mines, racism is clearly depicted through the narrator’s thoughts and actions. However, while we see how the novel is deeply racist in general, Quatermain, the narrator, also expresses empathy for the natives in Africa. Quatermain’s empathy isn’t sincere despite his movements to appear less racist as his colleagues and…

Throughout the history of America, there has been a recurring issue, racism. The social issue has been used as a form of oppression to belittle groups of races that are considered inferior to the white race. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird gives multiple examples of how racism and prejudice affect the lives of African-Americans,…

The Income Differential Effects Among Women, Men and Women and Men of Color and Possible Solutions United States has a strong economy that makes this country a country that offers a better life for their citizens and people who migrate. Throughout the economic history, it is well known that the development of inequality and gap…

As many of you know racial profiling has been going on for a while now but things just progressively get worse and worse. Discrimination has been an issue since the beginning of time whites always thought of blacks as weird and didn’t understand how people would be “colored” or black. Slavery was one big issue…