Racial Inequality Research Paper

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Racism is everywhere in America. White settlers stole land from the natives of this country, forcing them to keep moving off their land and onto reservations. White people stole the people of Africa to be slaves, and wrote into the constitution that the slaves where only worth 3 “real people” for every 5. While we now outlawed slavery, rich and white people has success on the backs of people of color, this class system based on race. When the Slavery was banned in the U.S. in 1865 people of colour were surprised into their own group with less resources than the average white family. In Ibram X Kendi’s Article (Uncovering the roots of racist ideas in America)”From the beginning, Americans have been trying to explain the existence and persistence of racial inequities. Racist ideas considering racial inequality to be normal due to black pathology have locked heads with anti-racist ideas that consider racial inequality to be abnormal and the effect of racial discrimination. Anti-racist ideas have called for the justice of equity, while racist ideas have called for the law and order of inequality.” …show more content…
Jim Crow laws were laws that kept white people and black people,”separate but equal.” Law makers used these laws to restrict black people from voting and to keep them poor and not represented in the government. In the article, Jim Crow laws, from PBS.org,” in legal theory, blacks received ‘separate but equal’ treat,net under the law- in acutally, public facilities for blacks were nearly always inferior to those Ed for whites, when they existed at all. In addition, blacks were systematically denied the right to vote in most of the rural south through the selective application of literacy tests and other racially motivated criteria.” Jim Crow laws lasted until 1965 with the civil rights