African American Inequality Research Paper

Racism, the reoccurring struggle for equality Most of the African Americans are still facing racism. In 2008, an Oregon archives exhibit stated that “African Americans, both nationally and in Oregon faced continuing discrimination and segregation during World War II.” During this time discrimination in employment continued for African American. Prior to the war, many blacks found jobs as hotel and train waiters and porters along with a handful of other unskilled positions. Thus, blacks generally were excluded from jobs in café and restaurants. Despite the legal equality African American have struggle against racism. It is claimed in many parts of the United Stated that African- American’s are still struggling for equality against racism. African American have struggled to gain acceptance since they were encountered with the injustice and …show more content…
Of the 2,000,000 men in prison 841,000 are Black (39.1%). Despite modern stereotypes that characterize Black men as more violent than Whites, both groups commit proportionate numbers of crimes. However, multiple studies have found that Black men are not only more likely to be “randomly” searched, stopped and frisked, but are also more likely to be found guilty and receive harsher sentences than Whites. Most of the Black men in today’s prison system are not even locked up for criminal offenses, but for illegal sale and possession of drugs crimes largely ignored in middle class and poor White communities. This dehumanization and unfair incarceration of the Black man is not new to America’s racist prison legacy. In Alabama in 1865, as Blacks gained their freedom, White racial stereotypes of them shifted from the happy, child-like and foolish Black slave to a lubricious, aggressive population of reprobates in need of restrain. Within two decades Blacks went from 2 percent of the prison population to 74