Amber Jutila
Gened 130 MWF 10:00-1050
Discrimination Writing Assignment
10 Sept. 2014
Discrimination Against African Americans; A Common Trend One may think that discrimination is a thing of the past, however, it seems to be more common than we think. In fact author Joe Feagin has written an article that proves to people just how much discrimination against African Americans is still occurring in public places. People might say that all of the civil rights acts have solved the issue of racism, but even in today’s society blacks in the middle class region are still reporting acts of racism and discrimination. Feagin reports that that the main types of discrimination include acts such as; “avoidance actions…rejection actions…verbal attacks…[and] …show more content…
This interview stunned me because usually we see kids as the people that are the least likely to discriminate based on race. From this, story I would assume that the parents of this household are teaching racism, which to me seems like a huge problem, because now these kids are most likely to keep these views for the rest of their lives. If this child is being taught this at home, then he is going to bring that out in public, and maybe even teach his friends that it is “cool” to be racist, and it will perhaps even create a domino effect and start to impact others as well. I do think that discrimination is slowly going away, but we need to put this issue to bed for
Gened 130 MWF 10:00-1050
Discrimination Writing Assignment
10 Sept. 2014
Discrimination Against African Americans; A Common Trend One may think that discrimination is a thing of the past, however, it seems to be more common than we think. In fact author Joe Feagin has written an article that proves to people just how much discrimination against African Americans is still occurring in public places. People might say that all of the civil rights acts have solved the issue of racism, but even in today’s society blacks in the middle class region are still reporting acts of racism and discrimination. Feagin reports that that the main types of discrimination include acts such as; “avoidance actions…rejection actions…verbal attacks…[and] …show more content…
This interview stunned me because usually we see kids as the people that are the least likely to discriminate based on race. From this, story I would assume that the parents of this household are teaching racism, which to me seems like a huge problem, because now these kids are most likely to keep these views for the rest of their lives. If this child is being taught this at home, then he is going to bring that out in public, and maybe even teach his friends that it is “cool” to be racist, and it will perhaps even create a domino effect and start to impact others as well. I do think that discrimination is slowly going away, but we need to put this issue to bed for