Slavery, which was based on racial discrimination and racial prejudice, has been rooted out from the United States of America in the early years of the nineteenth century. However, it seems that this racial discrimination, prejudice and the element of slavery has been entrenched into the minds of the general public. The general public still reminds the black people that they are from the inferior race and they are less beautiful and stunning than the other race of the society at every perspectives. The unconscious idea of racial discrimination and stereotyping against blacks upon their freedom, self-respect, social identity and family relationships. These discrimination not only had affected the black population socially, but on psychologically and emotionally as well, due to which some people has become over-sensitive and some others have turned over-protective as well as abusive towards their own families and children. Although there may have some …show more content…
It is because these “perceptions, thinking and attitude” already planted into their head. Same in the case that has happened with the white citizens of the United States of America, who have accepted the blacks as the free population of the United States; however, they are unable to show same respect, prestige and security to the blacks as they show to the other white populations of the country or even the whole world. When a white people walked in an elevator with a black male, the white always and unconsciously hide his/her wallet. The white are unable to digest the reality that the people, who used to work for them and were dependent upon them for their livelihood, in the past, are now comparing and competing with them in the society.
The two examples from Fields, B. J. and Díaz, J. can help us to see my idea more